I'm reworking my networking scheme and I wanted to make my network file shares accessible via WAN. Rather than dealing with VPN through varying network configurations when I travel I want to make all my file server FTP. Would there be any problems with this?
I know that FTP transfers over a local network will negotiate at full network speeds, but I don't know if there are other issues that would come up. Would it make more sense to use a VPN application (something like Hamachi) that would auto navigate through networks that I'm using my laptop on?
I should mention, that a secondary reason is security on my network. I've recently allowed my neighbor to use my wireless and I don't want them to be able to stumble across my files if they go snooping, and FTP folders would not show up when they search for network resources.