I am new to QNAP with tiny experience with NAS (WD MyCloudMirror) and frustrated that there are no EASY instructions on how to initially set up / configure QNAP NAS for basic functionality - meaning secure storing documents, pictures, videos and having access to them through the internet. Of course my TS-464 is somehow configured with in my opinion TOO MANY apps running. QNAP seems to be constantly reading and writing something but I have little knowledge of what is going on. I am trying to read Knowledge Base or watch some YouTube videos but I am not finding anything that would SIMPLY explain anything. You try to follow something and quickly you find yourself in an area that has nothing to do with what you tried to figure out or too many things are being talked about and you loose focus. If you know of a good place to start diving into learning QNAP NAS environment, please point me.
One of the most dangerous topics (malware infections that can hold all your data ransom)
So utmost priority should be to check that you do not have ports forwarded to your NAS (manually or via upnp)in your router.
Incomming WAN connections are done best via self hosted VPN (no that does not cost anything) or via QNAPs relay (CloudLink)
If you have no idea what this means, abandon all plans to do this yourself and go to a filehoster like onedrive,dropbox,etc for external file access
You can have a safe way or an easy way to remotely access your NAS but not both.
Tailscale might not be such a hurdle for you on the NAS itself. If it’s too much hassle then a cloud provider is where you need to be heading.