Is my media server serving the whole world?!

Hi,
I have a Thecus N0503 ComboNAS that I use to act as storage for all my digital music, video and photos. This is connected to my Time Capsule using gigabit ethernet and that in turn is connected to an O2 modem/router to the internet. I allow all the wireless Macs in the house to access Shared Folders and I have the iTunes server built-in to the Thecus switched on.
I am new to NAS devices and particularly all the acronyms used for the various ways of allowing access to FTP, NFS, SAMBA/CIFS etc and I was wondering if this ignorance is responsible for my problem.
Even with everything switched off apart from the NAS, Time Capsule and modem/router (so no interaction from any connected Mac) there seems to be a lot of hard drive activity as witnessed by the panel lights and noise coming from the Thecus. There are two drives installed currently set as a RAID 0 striped volume, but this couldn't be responsible for this amount of activity could it?
I'm just worried that I'm sharing all my media files with anybody who can connect to my NAS and would like a walk-thru to set this up as securely as possible. The modem/router is secure, as is the wireless network provided by the Time Capsule - at least I think it is - you have to use a password to access it!
Thanks for any advice you can offer.
Regards
Rich

You can check to see if its the outside world by disabling the O2 modem.
Other than that, i doubt you will get much help with setting up your NAS here.

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Okay, I've actually posted about this issue before but was simply told that 'Apple do not support the Time capsule as a media server', but this is my experience...
I have a modem/router supplied by my ISP that distributes wireless at 'g' standard - fine for our iPhones, but all our Macs are modern Intel models capable of using the 'n' standard.
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