April 8, 201313 yr First a quick disclaimer, I just built my first unRAID server running 5.0-rc12a, so I'm as green as it can get in this forum. In the Configuration Tutorial Wiki, it warns about limiting direct SMB or NFS mounts to the internet for obvious security reasons. My incredibly naive question is this: I have to enable AFP & SMB share to get some computers on my network to recognize the server in Finder. If my unRAID server is also connected to a live modem/router over a gigaport switch, am I exposing these AFP/SMB mounts to the web? Also, any general advice to getting Macs to recognize an unRAID server once their wired would be greatly appreciated. Currently, they seem to only display AFP wireless connections. Many thanks in advance.
April 8, 201313 yr If you have a router, and the router is handing out private addresses, then you are not exposed unless you specifically tell the router to forward external requests to the internal private address assigned to unraid. I would guess that applies to 95% of people using unraid.
April 8, 201313 yr Author The 95% being people using their unRAID servers with a router handing our private IPs?
April 8, 201313 yr The 95% being people using their unRAID servers with a router handing our private IPs? Yep. I'm just spitballing the number, but I'm positive it's a very small minority of users that have directly public accessible IPs assigned to their unRaid machines.
April 8, 201313 yr Author Thanks for the clarification. Heard a lot of great things about this community, can't wait to learn more about the machine I've actually created here.
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