The tale of 12TB on my home network and how I have been trying to setup my VPN
A couple months ago I unsuccessfully gave up trying to setup my VPN for my home network, at the time I didn't have anywhere near 12TB of storage, but I had all my images and I was sick of using Teamviewer/Google Drive/Smug Mug to access my images.
Fast forward to getting a 12 TB RAID 5 configuration setup for all my images and important files. Get the MBP and start saving all my personal projects on my storage array. Go out of town for the holidays and can't access my projects like I normally do. Time to setup the VPN, so last night I was extremely tired at 3AM attempting to setup a VPN on the Asus RT-N66U with a metric shit ton of unsuccess.
Tonight I finally get it to work with the WAN IP Address. Now I know that IP address is automatic and will sometime in the future change leaving me with a serious WTF?!?! Luckily Asus has a nifty DDNS feature for automatic IP's, set it up last night, but didn't realize the hostname I was using was already registered on their site with another router. Try a different name and resolved that issue.
After finally getting everything setup and connected, I attempted to connect to my servers via SMB. No dice, can't connect, can't ping. Next up is a netstat -r to see the routing tables, weird, I'm connected to the VPN, showing I can access the range of IP Addresses that are set for my home desktop which were set to something like 192.168.1.1.
Thirty minutes of unsuccessful attempts and I'm about to give up. Finally come across a simple Google result, and come to the realization that my IP address range is different on the Mac than it is on the Home Network.
Change the IP address range in the router for the VPN connections to match the home network range and voila, able to connect to my shares.
https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/425242-can-t-access-network-resources-over-vpn-on-a-mac
Fast forward to getting a 12 TB RAID 5 configuration setup for all my images and important files. Get the MBP and start saving all my personal projects on my storage array. Go out of town for the holidays and can't access my projects like I normally do. Time to setup the VPN, so last night I was extremely tired at 3AM attempting to setup a VPN on the Asus RT-N66U with a metric shit ton of unsuccess.
Tonight I finally get it to work with the WAN IP Address. Now I know that IP address is automatic and will sometime in the future change leaving me with a serious WTF?!?! Luckily Asus has a nifty DDNS feature for automatic IP's, set it up last night, but didn't realize the hostname I was using was already registered on their site with another router. Try a different name and resolved that issue.
After finally getting everything setup and connected, I attempted to connect to my servers via SMB. No dice, can't connect, can't ping. Next up is a netstat -r to see the routing tables, weird, I'm connected to the VPN, showing I can access the range of IP Addresses that are set for my home desktop which were set to something like 192.168.1.1.
Thirty minutes of unsuccessful attempts and I'm about to give up. Finally come across a simple Google result, and come to the realization that my IP address range is different on the Mac than it is on the Home Network.
- Home Network is 192.168.1.1
- Mac is 192.168.2.2.
Change the IP address range in the router for the VPN connections to match the home network range and voila, able to connect to my shares.
https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/425242-can-t-access-network-resources-over-vpn-on-a-mac
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