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Nik Weaver

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Hello.. I've spent days scouring the web for an answer to this and haven't come up with much.
I am a music producer, and I travel a lot. I have two computers that I work on most often. One, is a windows 7 desktop I built a year or two ago, and the other is a Windows 8 laptop I bought new.

My desktop has an internal HDD dedicated to my work, for example, my sample library, my program installers, my presets, MIDI files, sheet music, etc. I have this drive mapped as a network drive on my laptop, so that where ever in my house I am working, it's like I have this drive right in my laptop even though it's not. I can load samples and projects relying on samples from this drive quickly with no issues.

My question is, how can I set up my desktop, so that I can have this configured and working from anywhere, provided I have an internet connection?

My best guess from experience and what I've found on the web is VPN, but I have little experience with VPN and I'm not sure the best way to set this up. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance.
-Nik
 
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What you would have to do is setup a VPN to your home network so that your laptop "looks" like it is part of the LAN. Your router may have the capability to be a VPN endpoint. You would also need to setup a DDNS (Dynamic DNS) so that as your home's public IP address changes you have a way to find it.

This should probably be moved to NETWORKING since it really is a network not storage thing.
 
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That's basically the answer I had come up with, but I don't really know how to go about doing that...any chance you could point me in the right direction? Thanks.
 
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What router do you have? That will determine if it is even possible with your current hardware.
 
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I have a Linksys WRT54G/GL/GS with DD-WRT v24-sp2 (07/22/09) firmware
 
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Thanks a lot, I haven't had a chance to try it out yet, but I'm sure I'll be able to figure it out with those links.
 
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Depending on the speed of you internet connection you MIGHT need a newer router. VPN termination takes a fair amount of CPU power. Your WRT is pretty old. If you successfully get it to work, I would recommend you get a newer and more powerful router to improve your performance.
 
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Thanks again, I'll post back when I get it working.
 
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Thanks again, I'll post back when I get it working.
 
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