Suggestions for NAS for home network and remote access to clients

I have a photo studio in my home and will need to get the digital files to my clients roughly once a week. i am currently using dropbox, but was thinking of purchasing a NAS that I could use for this purpose,as well as for my home network needs, mainly itunes and photos of the kid...
any suggestions for a mac friendly NAS , and how it can be accesed by my client over the internet?
can a NAS be accessed like a FTP site, using fetch or another FTP client?
thank for any help.
-thomas

Hi Thomas,
I have had similar considerations and finally chose QNAP 439 Pro II over the many other ones out there (LinkSys, NetGear, Bufallo, etc.). Without going into technical details, the main reason for my choice were easy-of-use, functionalities and scalability:
http://www.qnap.com/prodetail_feature.asp?pid=148
It's not the cheapest solution out there, but works great with the Mac, even acts as storage solution for TimeMachine (with latest firm ware). And implementing client access is easy.
Hope this helps.
Kind regards,
Mark

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Dear Milos,
I am happy to hear from you....
1.- Actually the setup was done long before by another guy and right now I don't want to change it.
Nice to hear from you! Thank you so much. Actually this is first time I am using technet forum upon the suggestion from one of the my friend. So any your help from you will help me a great in this issue...
I ran the route print command and given follow are the results.
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IPv4 Route Table
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Interface List
0x1 ........................... MS TCP Loopback interface
0x2 ...00 30 05 ad 8f 5c ...... Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet - Teefer2 Mi
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0x3 ...00 0e 0c a7 c4 f8 ...... Intel(R) PRO/1000 GT Desktop Adapter - Teefer2 M
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0x4 ...00 0e 0c a7 c5 85 ...... Intel(R) PRO/1000 GT Desktop Adapter #2 - Teefer
2 Miniport
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0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 192.42.161.112 192.42.161.220 1
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