Need guidance with internet access to 5N

Drobo - End of Sale Drobo 5N
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I would like to know first if it is possible to setup a home drobo 5n to be accessed via the internet with my macbook pro.
I am trying to store images on the drobo that I can get to via the internet.

Also I was wondering what would be the best application to manage photos on the drobo and access from the mac?

Thanks for any help possible.

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The topic of remote access to an FS/5N has been addressed probably a hundred times in the forums already. As for remote photo management, that depends heavily on what you set up for remote access first.

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Can you point me in the direction of a thread discussing this? As for viewing, I would like to access them from all my devices, iphone, macbook and Dell laptop

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I’d be interested in an internet access solution too. We have ours setup as a small business SAN and we have some remote users that need access to it (if possible).

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I was going to use the Drobo to replace Dropbox.

I didn’t want to use basic FTP as the people accessing the shares are not very IT literate and like a friendly familiar interface. I did set it up with no problems in the end but for a number of other reasons (Lack of app support) we are taking the Drobo offline in favour of a better all round solution). I can share what we did in case its useful. I can definitely say this worked pretty well.

So what I did was got a fixed IP. Setup a VPN (actually had a VPN server built into the router as many do now) and the guys just use the VPN wizard to easily setup access in windows 7 vpn client to access it as a network drive. Works perfectly and just connects as a mapped network drive for them. Not had to think beyond that yet but the same thing will work with any VPN client that supports the same protocols. I am just waiting for the first BYOD request from someone with a Tab or phone but I see on the Android market place that the phones etc support the same VPN standards so I am sure it will be no problem.

If you have a Mac VPN client and a router that can support it you could configure the same thing. (I know little of MAC’s but I guess they support the usual standards for VPN)