Hi All. Forum newbie here. Please also consider me a NAS newbie as well, given the amount of understanding of these things I have.
I asked a guy in IT at my work what solutions were available to store thousands and thousands of photo's and access them from my iphone when I'm travelling. He suggested a small Synology NAS, so I bought a brand new DS220+. Now, I have always used external hard drives to back up my files, and got the impression that a NAS was just an external HDD with external access. Terrific. Well, I have struggled to find basic, easy to understand step by step instructions on how to set this damned thing up properly, so I've done the best I can. I didn't expect the learning curve to be so steep. Everything I've read, researched, and studied so far is, IMO, written in tech gobbledigook not designed for the layman. I hope with this context someone here may be able to help me with this error, please.
When I use the Synology Assistant to access my NAS, a browser window opens and it says, "Your connection isn't private. Attackers might be trying to steal your information from XXX.XXX.XX.XX (for example, passwords, messages, or credit cards). NET::ERR_CERT_COMMON_NAME_INVALID. This server couldn't prove that it's XXX.XXX.XX.XX; its security certificate is from XXXX.synology.me. This may be caused by a misconfiguration or an attacker intercepting your connection. Continue to XXX.XXX.XX.XX (unsafe)."
I hit continue and am taken to the log in page where I enter my NAS username and password, and log in. Even though I am able to successfully log in, I am very uncomfortable that this error appears, as it leaves me wondering if my NAS is wide open to others. I don't know if it is relevant, but I got 2 certificates because somewhere, something said I needed to, but I have no idea what they do or how to make them do what they're supposed to do; one says (Default certificate) (RSA/ECC) Synology DDNS Certificate, and the other one says (RSA/ECC Synology QuickConnect Certificate.
Could someone please tell me, in very basic, easy to understand terms how to fix this, or point me to some instruction somewhere that will?
I asked a guy in IT at my work what solutions were available to store thousands and thousands of photo's and access them from my iphone when I'm travelling. He suggested a small Synology NAS, so I bought a brand new DS220+. Now, I have always used external hard drives to back up my files, and got the impression that a NAS was just an external HDD with external access. Terrific. Well, I have struggled to find basic, easy to understand step by step instructions on how to set this damned thing up properly, so I've done the best I can. I didn't expect the learning curve to be so steep. Everything I've read, researched, and studied so far is, IMO, written in tech gobbledigook not designed for the layman. I hope with this context someone here may be able to help me with this error, please.
When I use the Synology Assistant to access my NAS, a browser window opens and it says, "Your connection isn't private. Attackers might be trying to steal your information from XXX.XXX.XX.XX (for example, passwords, messages, or credit cards). NET::ERR_CERT_COMMON_NAME_INVALID. This server couldn't prove that it's XXX.XXX.XX.XX; its security certificate is from XXXX.synology.me. This may be caused by a misconfiguration or an attacker intercepting your connection. Continue to XXX.XXX.XX.XX (unsafe)."
I hit continue and am taken to the log in page where I enter my NAS username and password, and log in. Even though I am able to successfully log in, I am very uncomfortable that this error appears, as it leaves me wondering if my NAS is wide open to others. I don't know if it is relevant, but I got 2 certificates because somewhere, something said I needed to, but I have no idea what they do or how to make them do what they're supposed to do; one says (Default certificate) (RSA/ECC) Synology DDNS Certificate, and the other one says (RSA/ECC Synology QuickConnect Certificate.
Could someone please tell me, in very basic, easy to understand terms how to fix this, or point me to some instruction somewhere that will?