diff --git a/docs/topics/file_storage.rst b/docs/topics/file_storage.rst
index f02e38d7aa..ed39309c3e 100644
--- a/docs/topics/file_storage.rst
+++ b/docs/topics/file_storage.rst
@@ -26,3 +26,10 @@ not by the project but by the ``Storage`` module class. All the other
 modules don't make any assumptions about how the actual document files are
 stored. This way files can be saved locally, over the network or even across
 the Internet and everything will still operate exactly the same.
+
+The default file storage backend: ``storage.backends.filebasedstorage.FileBasedStorage``
+is a simple backend that only supports paths and not IP addresses. In case you
+are interested in using remote volumes to store documents (NFS, SAMBA), first
+mount these volumes so that they appear as a directories to Mayan EDMS. For
+direct support for remote volumes a custom backend would be needed such as those
+provided by the Django Storages project (https://django-storages.readthedocs.org/en/latest/).