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XR500 OpenVPN Configuration
Hello, I recently bought a new XR500 (Nighthawk AC3200 died) and I'm trying to configure OpenVPN on it. I'm a bit of a novice when it comes to OpenVPN as I've had no need to configure this until n...
Solution:
I managed to get this finally working with VNC instead of RDP.
Setup:
- Screens installed on iOS device
- OpenVPN Server installed on Synology (I believe this should also work for my router's OpenVPN Server, untested)
- Manual configuration required to connect to LAN device using IP Address instead of host name defined my computer
- Success
I notice on the diagram that you want to set up the XR500 with OpenVPN. The XR500 has two OpenVPN related features, so i'm wondering if you are referring to Hybrid-VPN (an OpenVPN client for your whole network) or the Netgear VPN feature (an OpenVPN server hosted on your router)
I have setup the OpenVPN Server. Settings -> Advanced Settings -> VPN Service. I'll also note that perhaps the reason I can access my Synology while connected to VPN is because it is a hardwired connection to my router. My other LAN devices are wireless.
Alternatively, I have also tried to setup OpenVPN on my Synology which has yielded the same results.
- I'm a bit confused on why you need this feature, perhaps I'm not understanding correctly but the VPN service is for accessing your home network remotely i.e. when you're not at home, not for accessing your home network when you're already home which it sounds like what you're doing?
If you are attempting to access it remotely anyway then you need to do so using your public IP address but as it seems your AT&T modem/router is running in router mode without a passthrough such as modem/bridge or DMZ enabled then you wouldn't be able to access it anyway.I can make some additional confiugration changes to hopefully get this to work.
I have enabled IP Passthrough (DMZPlus) on my AT&T router/modem and now my XR500 has full control over my incoming requests using my outward facing IP address. I still have the issue of not being able to see my local LAN devices when connected to my VPN Server. VPN clients can still connect and are given an IP Address on this subnet, 192.168.2.0/255.
Is there any static routing that needs to be done? I'm unable to edit the server.conf file on my router as I don't have SSH access and that's not even a supported option at this point.
- Are you just trying to access the files on each device when you're already at home? If so then ReadyShare would be a better option. Could you clarify the usecase please?
