I have a question about setting up remote access to a home machine. The setup at home is a desktop computer running Vista home 32bit, connected to a D-Link router, with a NAS (not sure what brand) also connected to the router. The remote computer is a laptop with a dual boot of windows XP home and ubuntu linux.
I want to be able to connect to the NAS remotely and have read/write access for file sharing and organizing. I really have three questions, what would be easier to setup/more sercure/faster, ssh/sftp or vpn. Most important would be security, but I also don't want to have to trouble shoot every time I try and connect.
I was thinking that I could either ssh to the desktop and then use a mapped drive to access the NAS, or I could setup a vpn to the desktop and use the local area connection to access the NAS.
Also, along with recommendations on which way to go, program recommendations would be helpful as well, (i.e. openssh or winscp).
thanks in advance
TJ
I want to be able to connect to the NAS remotely and have read/write access for file sharing and organizing. I really have three questions, what would be easier to setup/more sercure/faster, ssh/sftp or vpn. Most important would be security, but I also don't want to have to trouble shoot every time I try and connect.
I was thinking that I could either ssh to the desktop and then use a mapped drive to access the NAS, or I could setup a vpn to the desktop and use the local area connection to access the NAS.
Also, along with recommendations on which way to go, program recommendations would be helpful as well, (i.e. openssh or winscp).
thanks in advance
TJ