I Need Some Help Building A Home Network with NAS With Remote Access

[Synergy]

I have done a little research and skimmed through some threads here. Seems that many here suggest Synology. I am planning to rewire most of my home/ home office in Cat6. Partially for network other for IP security cameras.

Here is what I am looking to accomplish:
-Move my cable modem/connection to a dedicated rack
-Move my IP phones to rack
-Run a wireless router (cell phone and one laptop)
-Switch for wired HTR, DirectTV, Blue Ray, desktop
-8 Channel NVR (can the NAS, do double duty as a NVR, without expensive licenses?)
-File sharing between devices at a single source for backup.
-Remote storage, When I am on the road I am need to save a file or access a file I would like to be able to accomplish that.
-Connect a WinXP computer that is not on the internet to shared storage, if possible to keep off the internet.

I can figure out most of the hardware and run the cable. Getting it to all work is where I need some help.

[meental]

You'd be better off/cheaper buying a dedicated DVR for the cameras, synology charges way too much for camera licenses. Otherwise a synology nas will do what you want, keeping the winxp computer off the internet is pretty easy with settings on the router, just block all inbound/outbound connections to the wan.

[G-Man WC]

Contact the HillDaBeast.
She's had some home work done recently.
-g

[Synergy]

Contact the HillDaBeast.
She's had some home work done recently.
-g

I don't want to destroy files, I want to save them. My files make me money! Then again I guess her e-mails made her money too!

[stilly]

I think Watchguard would give you your accessibility while on the road but I have not set one up. You can get them on Fleabay for around $150 or buy them brand new for a lot more.

As for backup solutions, I think a decent FREE one was Cobian Backup, but it somehow did not want to copy things off of a NAS that was running NAS4FREE and had windows shares. I did not figure that out yet.

[the86d]

NAS4free isn't anything special (I believe you have to make the array manually anyway, so why not go to a lean distro that is more full-featured and do it manually for more than a 1-trick pony), and has worked on far less machines than Slackware has for me. You can re purpose a discontinued/EOL'd Watchguard w/a BSD-based firewall distro (after an updated bios flash that allows larger storage devices), and there are a few different options. I have acquired a few Watchguards over the years, as they are virtually junk when they stop being supported by Watchguard, unless you do some research.

Any hardware, w/alternate-port ssh tunnel for remote access?

[PanchoVilla]

One more for the synology bandwagon. The latest Update gives you two cameras for free, then like $50 each. So its not terribly spendy unless you want more than say 4-5 cameras. Its has a lot of apps for it and its own app store.

Its VERY useful if you want to use PLEX and use it as a media server. Just be sure to get a model with the + designation which has the more powerful CPU so that it can handle on the fly transcoding if needed.

I have been super happy with it so far. I primarily use it for PLEX & backups. (I have it in a RAID 10 config) I am in the process of adding a couple IP cameras now and testing it out to setup a 2-5 camera home system. Couple entrance cams and 1-2 PTZ in the house for nanny cam, get pics of any crooks type system. I have a DS 412+ system that I got 1-2 years ago.