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I have recently bought a WD EX2 Ultra which is working fine in my local network. Now I want to set it up for remote access, so I can access it when I am not in my local network.

There is a way to connect through My Cloud in your browser. I have checked this out but this is not giving the preferred solution. I want to be able to see the NAS in my finder (I'm using a mac, so I would be using 'connect to server').

So far (1,5 days of trying to set it up) I haven't found the best steps how to do this and getting this to work. I have tried it with Dynamic dns but was lost in what steps I would need to take after setting up a DDNS.

I also checked the option to set up a VPN (nordvpn) on the NAS, but because I am using mac it seems very difficult and impossible to do through Terminal.

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    You are aware that WD had a product line of NAS devices, that could be remotely wiped, when made public to the internet.
    – Ramhound
    Commented Jul 8, 2021 at 12:27
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    @Ramhound This regarding the WD My Book as I read it. And yes, I am looking for a secure way to connect my EX2 to the internet.
    – Marcel
    Commented Jul 8, 2021 at 12:34
  • VPN would be the only safe way. That means running a VPN service within your network on a device that supports it, connecting the NAS to that device either (directly) or connecting the NAS itself to the VPN allowing any other device to also be connected to the VPN. At that point it should just be an accessible device on the VPN. If that’s possible with your device I have no idea, just thought I would bring up the fact, WD literally had a product in the news that was being remotely wiped maliciously due to a security flaw in the firmware; While a different product shared code often happens
    – Ramhound
    Commented Jul 8, 2021 at 12:40
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    @Ramhound NordVPN has a small tutorial on how to install it on the WD NAS, problem is is that they use Bitvise in their tutorial and I can't install it on my MacOS.
    – Marcel
    Commented Jul 8, 2021 at 12:49
  • There are hundreds of SSH clients that exist one of them as to support macOS. But doesn't macOS even have a built-in SSH capability?
    – Ramhound
    Commented Jul 8, 2021 at 13:33

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