@Rolgold,
Setting port forwarding is not necessary to enable remote access. If you don’t set it, the WD servers will act as relay for the traffic going to your NAS in a secure way. If you set it, the WD servers are still used to track “where” you NAS is on the Internet, and the conntection is still protected by SSL, but there are fewer hops to go through, therefore you should get a slightly better performance.
