I do very much realize there are a lot of different options to do this, and have been for years. The kinds of things we can do in our homes as individuals with off-the-shelf hardware would have needed an IT Dept of a dozen just 10 years ago, ya know? I wanted to be able to VPN into my home and remotely access my machines and files. Just activate File Services and you're good to go.It's amazing that I can basically be my own IT Department.

I may be slightly wrong here, but you don't need a VPN if your computers are in the local network. You can assign users to only have access to certain areas as well. That stuff can be enabled by logging into the Synology, not the gateway router. On a Mac for example, your shared folders would appear as mounted drives on the Desktop.

You absolutely should be using 'file services' instead of retrieving files via the web browser. Correct me if I'm wrong but it kind of sounds like you don't know what the hell you're doing? I say that because I have a Synology and sometimes I am in the same situation. It encapsulates packets within an outer wrapper so that the packets inside don't know they're being tunneled. I run my own business, so there is no IT or anything - it's just me. Your work has to have a Virtual Private Network set up, or at least allow it to be set up. If I install that, is that all I need? What are those? Are those the VPN? Is that a separate thing I need to buy? One complicating factor is that I don't have access to the gateway router sort of a large coworking-type space and so I don't really have a permanent IP for port-forwarding type things. Synology has a package you can install called 'VPN Server'. Would a VPN allow me to map a folder locally on a Windows machine or connect directly to browse files in a Mac's finder? In other words, if I wanted to edit a jpeg, could I set it up so I could open it through Photoshop instead of the current method of downloading through some web interface and then edit it and re-upload it? I have been trying to get a grasp on how VPNs work, but most of the questions I have read on here seem to be from people that are using their works already functioning VPN. Currently, I can remotely connect via web-based services like LogMeIn or some of the web-based services that the Synology has, but it seems really slow and clunky so I thought this might be a better approach. FAQ on Coronavirus and Mefi : check before posting, cite sources how to block content by tags.

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