Enable Remote Access To Your Synology NAS Running DSM 7 With DDNS And Port Forwarding

This video covers setting up DDNS and port forwarding to enable external access to a Synology NAS running DSM 7.

The video topics include:
• An introduction to DDNS.
• Setting up DDNS on a Synology NAS running DSM 7.
• An introduction to port forwarding.
• Setup port forwarding both within DSM 7 and on a router itself.
• Enable HTTP to HTTPS automatic Redirect.
• Testing DDNS and port forwarding to confirm remote access.

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Timecodes
0:00 | Introduction
0:38 | DDNS Overview
1:48 | Setup DDNS Within DSM 7
3:11 | Port Forwarding Overview
3:35 | Setup Port Forwarding
5:20 | Enable HTTP To HTTPS Automatic Redirect
5:42 | Test DDNS And Port Forwarding Remote Access
6:23 | Closing

#synology #dsm7 #ddns #portforwarding

[IMBlakeley]

Worth noting the letsencrypt process requires port 80 on the NAS to be open so they can verify the IP.

[ywkhgqo]

This video ruled. So much better explained than other videos, and your screenshot of the port forwarding in your router was so helpful for me.

[g.]

Wonderful. After various different Youtube videos, it finally worked for me with your calm and full and understandable explenation. Many thanks!

[garethpan]

This video makes everything much clearer compared to complicated articles on internet

[glensnyder]

Thank you! So happy that your explanation was to the point and did the trick (after several unsuccessful tries with other tutorials). Very grateful.

[fulvio]

Great ! Finally a simple step by step tutorial for dummies like me. Thanks

[DomSigalas]

Amazing video! Can you still use Synology drive and syncing using this method?

[NeilBradleyMS]

Thank you for this great video, full of useful information. I've successfully, now setup my new NAS 920+ with DDNS and Port forwarded my router to the correct static ip address of my NAS. One further thing I've done, more of a security thing is I've changed the ports 5000 & 5001 to one's of my own choice, as these are very well known.

A thumbs up from me, and you also have a new subscriber. Love the channel, keep up the good work - Neil (UK)

[arthurk.]

Indeed excellent presentation - highly explanatory! Thank you.

[satishgoenka]

Very useful video but can we do the same thing with WD NAS Device?

[fmichaelhemmer]

Yep - this helped me out - thank you very much!

[uritam]

Thank you so much for the wonderfully explained steps of setting this up! 😃

is it possible to WAKE UP the Synology NAS outside my LAN?
(bypass 'WOL can only be used if DS finder and the server are connected to the same LAN')

[leftywhat]

No one has mentioned this, but can we use any external port number (from 1 to 65535) and map it to the internal port number. Example, external port 53423 and internal port 5000. Would this provide any benefit, compared to external port 5000, internal port 5000 ?

[forikakrisztian]

hi. can you explain me how can i acces my nas from external network using finder - connect to sevrer option.(command+k)

[sergiofernandezgiraldo]

Thanks for the simple & easy to follow video!! I followed all your steps but have a uPnP router, so at that point I just clicked confirm and apply. However, my external access is still not working. Do you have any suggestions?

[eugenekoiner]

Could you pls tell will there be the acces to you nas when you inside your local network? I mean like using quickconnect, when you inside it works directly with maximum speed, when you outside it still works remotely. As far as i can understand you cannot do the same thing with DDNS. And if so is there an option to somehow set two links for every app. When you come home it switches to local ip, when you out - DDNS?

[A_Bamusa]

Thank you for your helpful tutorial, now I can access Synology server using cellular connection from phone only but, I cannot access the server if I'm using any WiFi outside of my home (where the NAS connected all the time).

Do you have any suggestion to do? sometimes I want to access the server from my parent house.

[KircheYard]

Hi, great video. But I have a question I understood that ddns would deal with Dynamic IPs. Mine is not updating for some reason. It worked fine yesterday, but my IP changed today and I lost access to the NAS externally. Am I missing something, can you help?

[occasionalriders]

Is it possibile to Connect a vpn server with dds? And other thinghs, i don’t understand the part about the router seetting in the nas (i see that my router is not linked), and Why you close it with out setting nothinghs… tnx

[kurtdoerfel]

Would connecting my remote PCs to the NAS this method make my drive syncs faster VS using the standard quick connect method? If so, by how much?
I have fiber connections on both ends and need faster speeds. I'm currently getting between 500KB/s - 1MB/s. Would really appreciate the input. Thanks!