Access Synology Photos from the public network, quickly build Synology Photos album and access it remotely [no public network IP intranet penetration]

Preface

After taking photos outdoors, many girls want to upload them to the NAS at home for cloud backup and share them with others. However, NAS can only be used within the local area network. This tutorial teaches you how to use a mobile phone with data to take photos outdoors. Upload photos to Qunhui nas at home/work.

The problem this tutorial solves is:

1. People are outdoors and can only use data to access the Internet. How can they upload the photos they just took to the NAS at home for backup.

2. When using WeChat to forward photos, the image quality will be compressed. How to share photos losslessly and safely while ensuring privacy.

The results that can be achieved by following this tutorial are:

When you use your mobile phone outdoors, you can upload the high-definition photos you have taken losslessly to the Qunhui NAS at home anytime and anywhere, and create a fixed permanent address to share with your friends. Your friends only need to save this link to see the high-definition photos you sent in real time. picture. This method can also set an access password to ensure privacy and security, and you can stop sharing at any time if there is a problem.

1. Download and install the Synology Photos suite in Synology

2. Set up shared folders

Click the + sign in the upper right corner to create a folder

3. Add the photos you want to share

Added successfully:

Right-click the photo and click Share; or you can create an album, add photos to the album and then share the album.

Click to enable shared links, and a shared link will be generated:

http://192.168.50.142:5000/mo/sharing/GYbTNLsmS：

The first half of the link http://192.168.50.142:5000/ is the LAN IP address of your NAS

/mo/sharing/GYbTNLsmS The second half of the link is the path to the shared folder of your nas album.

Next, we use cpolar to map your LAN IP address to a public IP address, plus the path to the album shared folder to form the fixed public IP address of your nas album sharing page.

4.cpolar builds a tunnel

Go back to your cpolar web ui, the address is your nas local ip plus: 9200, click Create Tunnel

Write 5000 to the local address, select nas Qunhui as the protocol, and click Update

The configuration here is a random domain name (changes 24 hours). If you want your photo sharing link to be accessed stably, please use a fixed domain name.

If you purchased the cpoalr basic version or above (the cpoalr basic version supports retaining a fixed domain name), visit the official website and log in to your account:

The second-level subdomain name filled in here is nasphoto-share

The configuration information of fixed second-level subdomain names is as follows:

Note here :

1. Select nas Qunhui as the protocol

2. The local address is 5000

3. Write the second-level subdomain name into the domain name you reserved on the official website

After filling in, click Update/Create

5. Use the public IP address to access your shared photo album

Return to the status page of the online tunnel list/official website (if the online tunnel list of webui is not refreshed, the tunnel information of the official website status shall prevail)

Copy the public network link mapped by cpolar to the browser:

Go back to photo sharing and copy the second half of this link:

Merge the two links, and this will be the fixed public IP address of your shared album. You can send it to WeChat, browser, etc. to share it as much as you like.

Let's open it and try to see if we can see the photo we just uploaded:

Enter your password to access:

In the above operations, we have realized sharing photos on the desktop using a fixed public IP address. Next comes the highlight: using mobile phone data/other WiFi outdoors to losslessly share the photos we just took.

6. The mobile app uses the public network to upload photos and share them in a timely manner

First download the Synology Photos mobile software:

Find your public IP address of Qunhui:

If you are outdoors, you can also access the cpolar official website backend through your mobile browser!

https://www.cpolar.com/

Log in to Qunhui public network address account password

At this time, you can log in using 5G traffic, or you can access the NAS at home by connecting to other WiFi such as Starbucks WiFi! ! !

After taking photos outdoors, upload them to Qunhui nas:

Create a photo album for easy organization later:

After uploading, click Share:

At this time, the mobile app has automatically generated the shared album IP address based on the public IP address of your NAS. Just share it with others!

If you want to stop sharing, just turn off the sharing link or change the access password.

Open the mobile shared album IP in WeChat:

Successful visit!

After some operations on our part, we can use the Qunhui NAS at home to back up and share photos after taking them outdoors. We no longer have to worry about insufficient memory on the phone due to too many photos, the degradation of photo quality caused by sending via WeChat, etc. problem, and after backing up Qunhui at home, it is convenient for us to classify and organize various photos later!

Reprinted from cpolar pole cloud article: Use Synology Photos to share ultra-high-definition photos losslessly outdoors