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PR60X with Wireguard VPN connection - "network neighborhood" - possible?
Hi. Router Netgear PR60X. Established Wireguard VPN connection - from the outside point to local network. Connection works, I can access computers/NAS in my local network from the outside. BUT - I need to "remember" local IP adresses (eg. 192.168.5.14) to access the specific device in local network.
Is it possible to set (maybe I just can't find it...) so that after connecting to the local network from the outside via Wireguard IPN (external computer - Windows, computers in the local network - Windows, NAS Synology) these computers/NAS are seen as a "network neighborhood" (i.e. similarly as from a Windows computer inside the local network)? I don't have any server inside the local network, the "server" is the PR60X router, which creates the internal (local) network.
I'm "just an ordinary user" (home-user), not network profi, so please keep the instructions as simple (clear) as possible 😉
2 Replies
You can work around this by following:
1. Make DHCP reservations on PR60X so that servers/devices on PR60X LAN IP will be static.
2. Add these static IPs to your Windows Hosts file with easy names so that you can access these remote devices by names once VPN is established.
Than you. Unfortunately, it is not very convenient, for example, when you log in from "different" computers (e.g. from a work computer, where you cannot change the settings). In my private one - I can enter it in hosts, but when I use different ones - then it is not possible, hence my question. But, as I understand, Netgear and/or Wireguard currently do not provide such an option, so you simply have to remember the numbers 😉 (they are static)
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