Browse Desktop Drives thru Synology Router

[spacecraft]

My desktop computer with Windows 10 OS is connected to my Synology RT2600 (with LAN cable)
My question:
Is it possible to browse the files and folders in my desktop (remotely) from outside when I connected to the router thru VPN?
What's the most secure and easy option to do this?
Thanks!

 

[Shadow]

Is it possible to browse the files and folders in my desktop (remotely) from outside when I connected to the router thru VPN?

Yes, but make sure the permissions of your Windows machine allow this.

What's the most secure and easy option to do this?

VPN.

 

[Rusty]

What's the most secure and easy option to do this?

As @Shadow said, configure the VPN Plus package on your router. Also, a great time to get some more permanent licenses (20 in total) for your VPN needs in the future

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After that you will be able to configure any model of VPN to access your local resources.

 

[spacecraft]

VPN.

Which VPN protocol is the best?

 

[Shadow]

Which VPN protocol is the best?

Depends a bit on your needs, wishes and own infrastructure.
I like OpenVPN because: It's scriptable, good logs and very configurable. One bad thing about it (thats Synology's fault, not OpenVPN): it's not routable...
But Synology SSL VPN is also fine. Its much simpler to setup, however it does require you to have your own public domain.

Do take notice of @Rusty 's post.

 

[Rusty]

EDIT: posted at the same time... didn't get the notification of a duplicated post hahah

If you wanna browse your files like you are connected locally then you can use L2 or OpenVPN method (protocol) to make this happen.

One of these 2 scenarios:

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[fredbert]

But Synology SSL VPN is also fine. Its much simpler to setup, however it does require you to have your own public domain.

The SSL-VPN service, in and of itself, doesn't require a specific domain. I just confirmed this by connecting directly to my SRM's Internet IP (+ port) using iOS VPN Plus app. The need for a domain is to do with accessing the unified web portal of the SSL-VPN, WebVPN, and Remote Desktop services.

If you browse to the HTTPS ports of any of these services it will convert the browser session's URL from whatever IP/domain you used to the specified domain in Synology VPN. This, I suspect, is because WebVPN has reverse proxy capability and it creates new browser sessions based on that domain ... without it then life becomes tricky.

 

[spacecraft]

Thanks everyone for your suggestions and comments
Let me try...