This is the next step I took for the NAS project. It was never intended to just be a local storage device, I wanted something I could access anywhere while I was out.

Currently I am using VPN to create a tunnel for my traffic to go through and end up at my home, and I have setup CIFS through OpenMediaVault to allow me to browse files remotely through the file browser of my choice.

For security I have opted to only allow my user account to access the Share, and have enabled drive encryption. My next goal is end to end encryption.

Though the speeds are a little slow at 2Mb/s, it is enough to have storage truly wherever I need. I suspect my VPN is the bottleneck here, but more than likely I will either be on a hotspot or bad wifi while using the VPN so I dont think its cause for concern.