What are the steps to Mounting my QNAP 251 to a laptop over the internet

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FSC830
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Re: What are the steps to Mounting my QNAP 251 to a laptop over the internet

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I guess the mount command runs when network is still not available.
You can run the mount command as a system unit with a dependency to network, so mount is done after network is up and running.
There are a lot of tutorials in the web for that.
Unfortunately my links are all redirecting to German ubuntu forum :( ,
But I am rather sure you will find some in English or your native tongue 8) .

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Re: What are the steps to Mounting my QNAP 251 to a laptop over the internet

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OK i will give that a go
thank you again for all your help
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Re: What are the steps to Mounting my QNAP 251 to a laptop over the internet

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anooyingly now i am actaully away from home it is not working:
sudo mount -a
mount error(115): Operation now in progress
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs) and kernel log messages (dmesg)

with my fstab saying :
\\192.168.0.17\Public /media/Files cifs credentials=/home/**ME**/.credentials,iocharset=utf8,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777,noperm 0 0

maybe i am forgetting to do something? start my vpn?? how does my computer know where 192.168.0.17 is??

i suspect i am missing something important
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Re: What are the steps to Mounting my QNAP 251 to a laptop over the internet

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well yeah..you wont be able to reach your lan without a vpn connection, so that would need establishing first
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Re: What are the steps to Mounting my QNAP 251 to a laptop over the internet

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so, it should work if, while conneted to the internt i go to: edit connections> vpn connections > client 2 (that i set up before) and click it it should then make the connection.?
thats what i have to do.

so it is probably because the password box is blank.

but where did i get the password from?
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Re: What are the steps to Mounting my QNAP 251 to a laptop over the internet

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Which password in which place?
You did install the NAS and setup the accounts, so YOU should know the passwords!?

Which vpn client software are you using? I dont know a software in which editing is mandatory for establishing a connection?
Editing means changing/modifying settings.
Or do you mean to list the connections and tab to one to activate?

Please describe in more details.

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Re: What are the steps to Mounting my QNAP 251 to a laptop over the internet

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hi.
when i click on the intenet icon on my laptop > drop down appears >vpn connections > i click on client 2 - and it tries to connect and fails.
i thought maybe that happened becasue when i click edit the password box was blank??

either way, the vpn connection fails and i cant mount-a my drive.

there doesnt seem to be much i can do about this but start again when i get home. the Qmanager app on my phone does not seem to work from outside.
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Re: What are the steps to Mounting my QNAP 251 to a laptop over the internet

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Still missing which client software is used. Which OS, Windows and native VPN client?

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