I recently got a Synology NAS and I am trying to setup Emby. I wanna host a media server however, I wanna be able to access the emby location from anywhere and let say my mom access it. Just I wanna keep it secure. Should I use cloudflare?

  • SmokingKinoko@lemmy.moeOPEnglish
    7·
    1 year ago

    I just worried about attacks on my router in case someone gets ahold of the link. Im learning all this security stuff. I actually helped my friend with his lemmy instance and got it running.

    I just know next to nothing about security…

    Give me something to try and get working I’ll pick it up, but I don’t even know where to start with this stuff. I read something the other day about using cloudflare to connect to a VPS and then direct that to my nas or something.

    I have 2 VPS services and 1 already hosts my jellyfin instance but i was gonna try out emby however, I wanna share my library with family like I share my Jellyfin with them. Just the VPS I run my jellyfin on handles all the security stuff. shrugs

    • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
      8·
      1 year ago

      Absolutely a fair reason to be nervous. For this just follow the rules of minimum access. Only open the ports you need to open, and make sure they only point to the item you want to expose. That will take care of 99% of use cases. Most hacks you see happening right now with home labs are because someone did something pretty obvious - like exposing their router/firewall UI to the open internet (instead of it only being accessible to the local network), same with their data servers.

      If you have a good network you can even restrict which IPs are allowed to connect through those ports, but remember if your mom’s IP changes or you’re sitting in a hotel then you’re essentially blocking yourself out (without a VPN or something).

      Finally, and I would save this for a little later, you can move your Emby/external services to an alternate VLAN. VLANs are virtual-lans, they are a block of IPs that have firewall rules in between each of them. So you could do rules like “Internal clients can talk to Emby, but Emby cannot talk to Internal Clients”. This can be a daunting thing and will take a lot of trial and error, not to mention probably revamping your entire network - so I’d hold off for now.