How to Access Data on the Synology Server Remotely

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This is a guide on how to access data on the Synology Server Remotely, via the Internet. This is beneficial for users who are at remote offices or are away from the Server, and need to upload new content, or to access their files at their remote office.

Notes:

• To do this, ports must be forwarded from the WAN to the Synology Server, please look at this guide if you are not familiar on how to forward ports.
• This guide assumes that you are familiar with file manipulation tasks, such as moving, copying data from one folder to another.

Access data via Synology File Station

The Synology File Station is a a Web-Based File Manager, which can be used to perform basic file management duties, such as moving data from one folder to another. The benefit of using the File Station to perform these tasks is that data is manipulated internally of the server, and not manipulated from the client computer. Another function with the File Station is if enabled for remote use, users can upload and download data to the Synology product remotely. The following quick steps will instruct users on how to enable the File Station.

• Ports required:
  • Non-Secured: 5000
  • Secured:5001
• Firmware 2.0.3 - 518 or greater is needed for File Station functionality

Step 1: Enable the File Station, if not enabled Go to Synology Administrative Menu Network Services Web Services Enable "File Station" Press OK
Step 2: To login to the File Station, return to the main Login screen and select "File Station" and proceed with your user credentials.
Step 3: This is the File Station User Interface will be shown. Here on the left is the directory or folder listing, beginning with all root shares that are available on the server. In the right pane is a list of contents within the selected folder (from the left pane) and also are several buttons which will perform the file management tasks. To download a file, simply click on the file that is required.
Known Limits User limit: Only one user is allowed access to the File Station; if more users are needed, please use the FTP interface. Batch Downloads: At this current time, the File Station is not capable of Batch Downloading of multiple files, or downloading whole directories; please use a FTP client to perform this task. Browser limits: Here is a list of known browser limits, for files which can be uploaded or downloaded Browser Max Upload Max Download Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 2GB 4GB Mozilla Firefox 2 2GB Infinite Safari 2GB? ?

Access data via FTP Service

Using the FTP Service of the Synology product offers greater versatility and capabilities than the File Station, such as the ability of downloading multiple files, and no known file size limits. To use the full potential of using the FTP service, FTP clients are required, such as CoreFTP, FileZilla or FireFTP for Mozilla FireFox. Instructions on how to enable the FTP service follows.
Default Ports required:

• 20
• 21
• 55536-56559 (For Passive FTP, default browser setting)

Step 1: Enable the FTP Service Go to Synology Administrative Menu Network Services FTP Service Enable FTP Service, and press OK If your Synology Station is attached to a router, be sure to activate the option 'report external IP in PASV mode' if you want to access your data through the internet. Be sure to note the port settings, if different than default.
Step 2: Browsing the contents of the Synology Server, via default FTP client in Firefox

Tip

To send embedded links to other users for downloading, use the following code to send an email to the clients

ftp://username:password@domain.net/folderPath/filePath.download