November 14, 201411 yr I am planning to keep the music from my USB drive on the mac synced to my Tower (5.0.5) for Plex to manage there. The guide I started to follow (http://www.larrytalkstech.com/use-rsync-to-backup-your-data-on-mac-osx-and-linux/) sort of suggests using SSH for good measure. I used Unmenu (1.6) to install OpenSSL (0.9.8n) and OpenSSH (5.1p1). There was a warning If you have not assigned a strong password to ALL the defined logins, you will be hacked if you open up ports to the internet... I would like to know your opinion on my risk level. I am using an ordinary Dlink NAT gateway, and have not (yet?) set up any incoming forwarding to reach my server from the outside. I allow UPnP on the router. I am using Plex, and it will communicate with the plex.tv servers@internet, but I am not sure if it means Plex will be reachable from the outside. (Does my Plex server talk outbound to plex.tv, and external clients talk to plex.tv to get data from my server? Will everything I watch on the go pass thru plex.tv servers?) Plex might shoot a hole in the gateway with UPnP as far as I know. I understand the reasoning for the warning. If someone discover a SSH port open, there will be no time wasted before bruteforcing the weak(?) default pwds on UnRAID. But am I at risk now? Will I need to make a NAT port forward to my Tower before worrying about this warning? A related question would be how I should address the share I want to use as a target for the rsync command. It is intermittently mounted as /Volumes/disk6/Music/DL, but most of the time the mount is not active. The network name finder see is smb://Tower._smb._tcp.local/disk6/Music/DL. Would it help to go NFS for this use? I am currently using SMB for all shares, and AFP just for a TM share (just wish it would work...). /Lars Olof /Edit: Just realized that RSYNC might just go with the SSH connection to the remote host, amIright? So there would be no need for a network share involved?
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