Its easy to check the status of unraid by going to http://tower while connected to your LAN. What if I wanted to check the status remotely? I assume its not using port 80 for the remote management page? I realize that I could RDP to my home PC and then access UnRaid from inside my LAN. The problem is my work blocks RDP connections outside of our subnet.

Actually the unRaid management page is using port 80.  It must for your browser to work without having to specify a port. ie http:\\tower:12345

 

So, you could configure your home firewall/access point to pass port 80 of tower out to the real world, but... since ANYONE could then administer your unRaid array since the page has no built in security,  it would probably not be a good idea.

 

Wait for Tom to add security in some future release, only then, and only if the admin page requires a password,would I open it up to the outside.

Wait for Tom to add security in some future release, only then, and only if the admin page requires a password,would I open it up to the outside.

 

Even then you'd be putting an awful lot of trust in whatever web server Tom has built in to his system.  I'd recommend never letting this machine get seen from outside your firewall.

 

For what it's worth, I do the RDP trick mentioned above.

 

Or,

 

If you could install an SSHD server on the USB drive, that would be neat too.  Or, just use any SSHD on your local network and forward port 80 to tower.