Re: Netgear SC101 - A tiny problem

["Andy Davies" <dajdavies@xxxxxxxxx>]

I don't think it does 'proper' networking and relies on software of
the
client machines to access it instead of stuff like the standard protocols.

If this is the case I think you might won't be able to use it the way you
want - what's acting as the VPN endpoint, is it a PC or a router?

Andy


On 12/07/06, Tim Fletcher <timfletcher@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I bought one of these a couple of months ago and have been broadly
pleased
> - pretty slow and pretty hot but cheap, convenient and ideal for my
> purposes.  One problem is that I can't connect to the NAS drives via
VPN -
> This is not a killer problem, but I had considered "loaning"
100Gb of my NAS
> to a mate in return for a reciprocal 100Gb of his SC101 NAS - the plan
was
> then to create an offsite backup location and solve all my data
storage
> problems.
>
> Having Googled this it appears I am not alone - can any NAS be used
like
> this?  Could the SC101 in the future via a software upgrade?  Any
ideas how
> I might be able to do it now?
>
> So near and yet so far...
>
> Tim.
>


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