Now you can remotely control QNAP NAS with TeamViewer

remotely control QNAP NAS with TeamViewer

TeamViewer is one of the world leaders in remote control of different devices such as PCs, smartphones and tablets. Thanks to the reverse connections made by TeamViewer, it is not necessary to open any type of port on our router to allow remote control from the outside, this greatly facilitates the use of this solution by less expert users. Now we have learned that TeamViewer is already available in the QNAP application store to remotely control your NAS servers, do you want to know everything we can do?

Alliance between QNAP and TeamViewer to control NAS

TeamViewer and QNAP have worked together to control the NAS servers remotely as if it were another computer, thanks to this remote access, we can access the NAS configuration web interface easily and quickly. We must remember that QNAP NAS devices are essential in many companies both for the operation and for the backup of other servers that we have, in addition, it is also very important for the exchange of files.

Thanks to the integration of TeamViewer in the QNAP NAS servers, they will be able to monitor the status of the NAS easily and quickly, either through the TeamViewer program itself or directly by accessing the official website of the program, where we can control the NAS and the different PCs with a web browser. Of course, in this case we will also have reverse connections to avoid having to open ports and data encryption works with AES-256 as usual.

With the partnership of TeamViewer and QNAP, the IT team of the companies will be able to remotely monitor and manage their NAS servers without the need to establish VPN tunnels to the company, in this way, from a smartphone we can use the TeamViewer app and enter directly on the NAS server of our company or our home, greatly facilitating remote access without the need to open any ports on the router or exposing the NAS server administration web interface.

Other features is that not only can we access the graphical user interface of the NAS via TeamViewer, we can also run a Linux administration console to execute commands, in addition, if we have a large number of NAS servers we can monitor and manage all of them, the only thing What we have to do is link the NAS server with the TeamViewer account. By linking the TeamViewer account, you will be able to have access to all the NAS that you have registered, as if they were just another PC to control them remotely or locally, but always using this program.

TeamViewer is only available from version QTS and QuTS hero 5.0 or higher . Considering that QNAP’s goal is to update the vast majority of its NAS servers to this new version 5.0, both for the QTS operating system and the QuTS hero operating system, we believe that TeamViewer will not be available for the versions 4.X that we currently have. therefore, until you update your NAS server to the latest version 5.0 or higher, you will not be able to use this new built-in functionality. Support is as follows: QNAP x86 or ARM 64-bit NAS (x28A, xA28A, x32, x35A) with QTS version 5.0 / QuTS hero version h5.0 (or later).