cirkator Posted April 12, 2013 Share Posted April 12, 2013 Hi there, I am about to start building my first unraid box. Since it is not secure to open up unraid to the web and I want to continue using an Android App to add movies and control SABnzbd when I am not at home, I need some advice please. The App (NZB360) can ONLY connect to a host-adress or an internal IP. So I have thought of two ways how to tackle this problem and would love to here your veteran thoughts or ways how you are doing it. I can setup a VPN and then, whenever I want to use the App, connect my Android Phone to my VPN and then add movies or control SAB running on my unRAID box as a plugin. This way, would be easy to setup, but not very comfortable to run, because I would always have to switch to the VPN connection whenever I just want to quickly check on SAB. Or I can setup a VM or ESXi and have both unRAID and e.g. an Ubuntu VM. Then i would have SAB and all Apps running on the VM and would be able to connect just like I do now. Right now I connect over dynDNS to a Linux Mint Machine and have to appropiate ports open and password secured. Which way would be easier to setup? More future-proof? Easier to manage, when its running? I imagine, that when i have a VM running and unraid at the same time, the CPU will be used a lot. When i would only have unraid running, the cpu could (?) throttle down when not used, which would result in a lower energy-bill. Any ideas and/or suggestions? : ) Quote Link to comment
TheDragon Posted April 12, 2013 Share Posted April 12, 2013 I'm no expert but I'd recommend reading up on OpenVPN, as I'm pretty sure it's meant to be more secure than pptp. Sent from my Samsung Galaxy S2 using Tapatalk 2 Quote Link to comment
lars Posted April 13, 2013 Share Posted April 13, 2013 Hi there, I am about to start building my first unraid box. Since it is not secure to open up unraid to the web and I want to continue using an Android App to add movies and control SABnzbd when I am not at home, I need some advice please. The App (NZB360) can ONLY connect to a host-adress or an internal IP. So I have thought of two ways how to tackle this problem and would love to here your veteran thoughts or ways how you are doing it. I can setup a VPN and then, whenever I want to use the App, connect my Android Phone to my VPN and then add movies or control SAB running on my unRAID box as a plugin. This way, would be easy to setup, but not very comfortable to run, because I would always have to switch to the VPN connection whenever I just want to quickly check on SAB. Or I can setup a VM or ESXi and have both unRAID and e.g. an Ubuntu VM. Then i would have SAB and all Apps running on the VM and would be able to connect just like I do now. Right now I connect over dynDNS to a Linux Mint Machine and have to appropiate ports open and password secured. Which way would be easier to setup? More future-proof? Easier to manage, when its running? I imagine, that when i have a VM running and unraid at the same time, the CPU will be used a lot. When i would only have unraid running, the cpu could (?) throttle down when not used, which would result in a lower energy-bill. Any ideas and/or suggestions? : ) well, some things might be not optimal, but secure (like switching to vpn to do the secure stuff). a little price to pay for having your box secured i think. movies (same as music) you could run also via subsonic plugin for easy access. L Quote Link to comment
Helmonder Posted April 13, 2013 Share Posted April 13, 2013 Hi there, I am about to start building my first unraid box. Since it is not secure to open up unraid to the web and I want to continue using an Android App to add movies and control SABnzbd when I am not at home, I need some advice please. The App (NZB360) can ONLY connect to a host-adress or an internal IP. So I have thought of two ways how to tackle this problem and would love to here your veteran thoughts or ways how you are doing it. I can setup a VPN and then, whenever I want to use the App, connect my Android Phone to my VPN and then add movies or control SAB running on my unRAID box as a plugin. This way, would be easy to setup, but not very comfortable to run, because I would always have to switch to the VPN connection whenever I just want to quickly check on SAB. Or I can setup a VM or ESXi and have both unRAID and e.g. an Ubuntu VM. Then i would have SAB and all Apps running on the VM and would be able to connect just like I do now. Right now I connect over dynDNS to a Linux Mint Machine and have to appropiate ports open and password secured. Which way would be easier to setup? More future-proof? Easier to manage, when its running? I imagine, that when i have a VM running and unraid at the same time, the CPU will be used a lot. When i would only have unraid running, the cpu could (?) throttle down when not used, which would result in a lower energy-bill. Any ideas and/or suggestions? : ) I am using a pptp vpn myself, works fine, I do have to set it up before I want to use an application inside my network. I know however that there is an option to fix this, I am using an iphone and I am certain that if I can set this up there it would be possible on android to: With an Iphone it is possible to configure "Connect on demand", as soon as you go to a site (ip/dns) inside a vpn the iphone will setup a vpn connection and use it for that traffic. Drawback is that the iphone can only do this with a certificate based vpn, so I would need to change my pptp setup to openvpn, something I have had on the agenda for longer and might just do to get this working. It is however a random apple thought to only allow this with certificate based vpn''s, I can easily imagine that there is such an option on android that might work with pptp also. I would go that route (with openvpn or pptp, knowing that pptp actually really takes 5 minutes to setup). I used to use a dd-wrt router and use the vpn server on that, I moved to a new router for better wireless coverage and therefor had to setup a different vpn server. I am now running a 512mb/1gig vm (ubuntu 32 mini)and setup pptp on that, really took 5 minutes. As far as I have been able to find out this is the safest option and it is really, really easy.. Quote Link to comment
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