Trying to mount a Fritz.Box NAS via Internet

[Fast Forward Freddy]

Hello *,

I got a HDD connected as NAS to my FritzBox. I can easily mount it in my home network using the local IP-address. On my Laptop, I would like to mount the NAS via the Internet, so I can access my own private home-cloud ;o)

I did configure the Fritz!NAS so I can access it via https://>cryptical-alphanumerical-address<.myfritz.net:>my-selected-portnumber</nas

Access via Browser works fine. I would like to mount that Address like I do in my home network. Replacing the local IP-Number in /etc/fstab by the https-String doesn't work.
What can I do?

Thanks,

Freddy

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running Manjaro on a HP Elitebook

 

[Fast Forward Freddy]

PS would be glad to rtfm - if you could point me in the right direction...

 

[dos2unix]

Has your ISP given you a public IP address? Have they opened the correct port on your router?

 

[f33dm3bits]

If you can do it on your lan it's probably a port forward on your isp router that needs to be configured.

 

[Fast Forward Freddy]

Hi guys, thx for trying to help, much obliged.

>cryptical-alphanumerical-address< in my first post ist the fixed public address given by my ISP. It looks something like this: "r5e2z67t687qwe7z82.myfritz.net"
So, even if my IP-address changes (usually every other week), this address is always the same.
>my-selected-portnumber< in my first post is the portnumber that I myself configured on my router (let's say 12345).

Typing https://r5e2z67t687qwe7z82.myfritz.net:12345/nas in my browser, I can log in via internet to my NAS => that means, address & port work fine, right?!

This is the entry in my /etc/fstab for a local mount:

//192.168.178.1/mynasdir /mnt/mynas cifs credentials=/home/ricky/.smbcredentials,vers=3.0,uid=1000,gid=1001,noserverino,x-systemd.requires=network-online.target,x-systemd.automount 0 0

This works fine. If I replace "//192.168.178.1/mynasdir" with "https://r5e2z67t687qwe7z82.myfritz.net:12345/nas" I get "mount.cifs: bad UNC".

If I cut out the "https:", I get "mount error: could not resolve address for (...)"

any ideas?!

 

[KGIII]

There's free (and paid) dynamic DNS services. You run a lightweight client that updates your DNS when it changes and you get a static address like mydevice.dyn.dns or the likes.

 

[Fast Forward Freddy]

Hi Kgill,
not sure, if you noticed my last post: That cryptical address is my static address. It doesn't change and I can access the NAS via internet (browser) with this address anytime.
I suspect that the error lies with the fstab entry. I guess something is missing?! Maybe the portnumber has to go somewhere else (i.e. not part of the address)?

 

[f33dm3bits]

It's not very smart to mount smb shares of the internet, if you are wanting to mount a share from your nas over the internet it's probably best to use https but your nas would have to support webdav to be able to mount it.

davfs2 - ArchWiki

wiki.archlinux.org

 

[KGIII]

It doesn't change and I can access the NAS via internet (browser) with this address anytime.

I get it now.

 

[Fast Forward Freddy]

Hi ... well ... dm-bits,

I tried davfs, unfortunately it is not supported by the fritzbox. Why is smb a problem?