[Access share while using VPN]

On 2/14/2023 at 10:16 PM, justdrew424 said:

Thanks for the tip guys.  I turned on the option "Allow remote access while connected to VPN" but it still does not work for me.  I'll keep searching and looking for another setting.

 

Thanks

Drew

Hi Drew,

 

Unfortunately my solution ended up seizing to work for one reason or another. Fortunately I have found another way to do this, and I remembered you were dealing with the same issue as I did, so I wanted to pass it by you as well as it might help out. 

First off, I went to the configuration menu 'Apps & features'. There click on 'Programs and Features' and click on 'Turn Windows Features on or off'. In that menu I went to the SMB 1.0 setting, and enabled the client and server, after which you should restart your computer. 

If you open the file explore (This PC). You should be able to click 'Add a network location'. Here you should enter the ip-address of your unraid server on your local network, NOT the name of your unraid server. So i.e. \\192.168.1.110 instead of \\tower. 

What ultimately did the trick for me was also adding the name of a share that you'd like to access. So in my case I entered "\\192.168.1.110\media". Then I was prompted to enter my username of the server. You could use your admin account I reckon, but I've opted to use an account I've made to access specific shares only. After doing so, all my shares appeared and I've been able to access the Unraid server through that ip-address since. 

If that for some reason STILL doesn't work, you could try Split Tunneling in NordVPN. That way you could allocate only certain apps to the VPN (i.e. qBittorrent & Chrome). That way it should bypass the vpn on other system settings. 

I hope this works for you as well!

Cheers,
Systeembeheerder

[Access share while using VPN]

Thanks itimpi! Seems to have worked to enable the setting "Allow remote access while connected to VPN" under Setting -> Connection in NordVPN. That might be the solutions for @justdrew424 as well.

[Access share while using VPN]

Me too unfortunately. On my Mac computers this doesn't seem to be an issue. However, I can still access the dashboard when using the IP-address assigned by my router to my Unraid server, it's just that the .local-address doens't work. But it gets troublesome when other software on my Windows machine needs to access the server directly - it simply refuses.