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VPN Access to Local LAN for NAS device etc
Hi All This has probably been talked about before but I am yet to find the answer so hopefully someone can help. Basically we have an office of 30 people. The set up is Fibre line into office...
Hi John
I responded yesturday to you, but sadly the message may not have sent befoer i closed the browser.
I have got the NAS access working now without changing anything that had already been set up.
Basically when searching the network to map the drive I originally used the the NAS's name which never appeared.
I simply used the NAS's IP adress and it was able to be mapped. It might have been obvious, but without reading a few posts i didnt realise that would have solved the issue.
Thanks for the help, in the end it was a simple fix.
Regards
Michael
I'm now a bit confused. You just said on your first post that you were able to use the NAS while on RDP via VPN. Even if you are not connected via a VPN, your NAS should have a feature that the files can be accessed remotely. I don't think that the VPN/Firewall is the issue here. May I know what do you want to achieve here?
However it wont let me set it as the same IP as it comes up with an error regarding the same subnet (via L2TP Server page).
That is correct, you cannot assign the same IP range as the local network. Any VPN does that.
I have tried to set up the VPN via IPsec wizard but it never connects via a trial of the VPN client.
Here is a step-by-step guide on how to setup IPsec VPN.
Regards,
John
NETGEAR Community Team
Hi John
I responded yesturday to you, but sadly the message may not have sent befoer i closed the browser.
I have got the NAS access working now without changing anything that had already been set up.
Basically when searching the network to map the drive I originally used the the NAS's name which never appeared.
I simply used the NAS's IP adress and it was able to be mapped. It might have been obvious, but without reading a few posts i didnt realise that would have solved the issue.
Thanks for the help, in the end it was a simple fix.
Regards
Michael
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