Home setup questions!

[Kxv]

Got a question about home set up across two households (my place and folks) with 6 users - all windows 10 laptop clients. Currently got a Synology ds218 running Active Directory, DHCP and DNS at main home. Files are mix of Office 365 for home and synology NAS. Issue occurs when synology VPN is a pain when at the other house accessing files, not an auto connect vpn and can be slow - thoughts ?

 

I’d like to think about moving AD to cloud, is Azure free for home use ? And can I connect to via cloud ?

 

Thoughts ?

 

Cheers

[Steve21]

What exactly is the purpose of the VPN etc? If it's only for sharing files between users etc, wouldn't it be easier to just base it on a shared OneDrive/Synology sync

 

Got a similar setup just using a shared folder within OneDrive that syncs to NAS via CloudSync, all users can connect to the OneDrive share

 

Unless you actually want to manage logins via AD etc seems like making a job a lot harder than it's needed

 

Steve

[Kxv]

I like that fact the clients are slightly locked down lol - saves dad installing nonsense ! I like the fact that I can get them to change passwords etcs... I could replace them all with a Microsoft OneDrive account login ??

 

Tell me more about cloud sync to symbology with OneDrive - we have 5 users on OneDrive - does syno do something with that?

[Steve21]

Synology cloud sync enables you to sync a shared folder (NAS wise) to any cloud service, So you can easily just have a folder setup that you want shared etc, and it syncs to a shared OneDrive folder.

 

https://www.synology.com/en-uk/dsm/feature/cloud_sync

 

Just removes the faff with VPNs etc, but obviously doesn't have the login/lockdowns if you really want them. Was just a thought

 

Steve