abs0lut.zer0 Posted July 15, 2018 Share Posted July 15, 2018 Hey all clever folk I DO NOT want to use any dockers on my server for reasons I'm sure nobody will be interested in. How can I connect to my server without the open vpn docker from the outside world? Appreciate any help Me. Quote Link to comment
Squid Posted July 15, 2018 Share Posted July 15, 2018 Many decent routers come with open VPN on themSent via Tapatalk because I'm either at work or enjoying the summer Quote Link to comment
1812 Posted July 15, 2018 Share Posted July 15, 2018 pfsense/opnsese vm acting as your firewall, then use openvpn from there. Quote Link to comment
abs0lut.zer0 Posted July 15, 2018 Author Share Posted July 15, 2018 12 minutes ago, Squid said: Many decent routers come with open VPN on them Sent via Tapatalk because I'm either at work or enjoying the summer didn't even think of that thanks looking now Quote Link to comment
abs0lut.zer0 Posted July 15, 2018 Author Share Posted July 15, 2018 For obvious reasons I don't wanna publish the make and model of my router here. Tried the vpn server of it and it's a cheap router and cannot seem to connect. Have tried various protocols and articles from the vendor's website to no success. Is there no type of plugin for connecting to unraid from outside my network? Thanks for any help. Quote Link to comment
Squid Posted July 15, 2018 Share Posted July 15, 2018 1 minute ago, abs0lut.zer0 said: For obvious reasons I don't wanna publish the make and model of my router here. For the life of me, I honestly can't think of what the reason would be. 1 minute ago, abs0lut.zer0 said: Is there no type of plugin for connecting to unraid from outside my network? Search for OpenVPN in Apps Quote Link to comment
abs0lut.zer0 Posted July 15, 2018 Author Share Posted July 15, 2018 reason being possible vulnerabilities on my router that can be leveraged for fun and games by people that are script kiddies. so rather be paranoid and i know it's quite simple to find out if they really wanted too but i just feel a little bit of sanity by not publishing the info.? will look in apps thanks for that...? Quote Link to comment
1812 Posted July 15, 2018 Share Posted July 15, 2018 10 minutes ago, abs0lut.zer0 said: Is there no type of plugin for connecting to unraid from outside my network? The absolute easiest way (I think) is to spin up a vm of ubuntu or similar, then install a Remote Desktop like team viewer in the vm and on your external device. While this does have it's limitations, it's all self contained and fairly easy to use. Quote Link to comment
abs0lut.zer0 Posted July 15, 2018 Author Share Posted July 15, 2018 1 minute ago, 1812 said: The absolute easiest way (I think) is to spin up a vm of ubuntu or similar, then install a Remote Desktop like team viewer in the vm and on your external device. While this does have it's limitations, it's all self contained and fairly easy to use. don't wanna have any dockers on my machine used to have a cheap acer tablet running team viewer but screen packed up and cannot use it any more. so looking for alternative connection to my network for dropping my stuff from my seed-box when i'm at work Quote Link to comment
abs0lut.zer0 Posted July 15, 2018 Author Share Posted July 15, 2018 looking at the open vpn plugin and am going to do my best to get that working. thanks people for all the help greatly appreciated squid Quote Link to comment
1812 Posted July 15, 2018 Share Posted July 15, 2018 11 minutes ago, abs0lut.zer0 said: don't wanna have any dockers on my machine a vm isn't a docker Quote Link to comment
abs0lut.zer0 Posted July 15, 2018 Author Share Posted July 15, 2018 6 minutes ago, 1812 said: a vm isn't a docker agreed sorry l did'nt explain better I do not have any more disks for apps I only use the limited disks i have for storage hence the ask about a plugin. Quote Link to comment
CHBMB Posted July 15, 2018 Share Posted July 15, 2018 agreed sorry l did'nt explain better I do not have any more disks for apps I only use the limited disks i have for storage hence the ask about a plugin. I can understand wanting a machine just as storage, I can understand to a degree your paranoia about certain information. But where I don't quite follow the logic is that you'd rather use a plugin installed with root permissions than a somewhat sandboxed docker container. Probably not a massive difference given that you're talking about OpenVPN here, but thought it worth pointing out.Sent from my Mi A1 using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment
ken-ji Posted July 15, 2018 Share Posted July 15, 2018 9 hours ago, abs0lut.zer0 said: agreed sorry l did'nt explain better I do not have any more disks for apps I only use the limited disks i have for storage hence the ask about a plugin. an openvpn docker has no significant drawbacks running on array disks (other than disk probably not spinning down) an openvpn plugin on the otherhand may suddenly fail to work on a newer version of unRAID probably cheapest is to grab yourself a raspberry pi, hook it up besides your router, setup openvpn on it and port forward to it. Quote Link to comment
abs0lut.zer0 Posted July 16, 2018 Author Share Posted July 16, 2018 9 hours ago, ken-ji said: an openvpn docker has no significant drawbacks running on array disks (other than disk probably not spinning down) an openvpn plugin on the otherhand may suddenly fail to work on a newer version of unRAID probably cheapest is to grab yourself a raspberry pi, hook it up besides your router, setup openvpn on it and port forward to it. hmm... now you got me interested I have a couple of pine64's lying around that i used to used for kodi they should do the job thanks ken-ji gonna look into that rather Quote Link to comment
CHBMB Posted July 16, 2018 Share Posted July 16, 2018 hmm... now you got me interested I have a couple of pine64's lying around that i used to used for kodi they should do the job thanks ken-ji gonna look into that ratherOnly issue with using something like the Pine is it limits bandwidth due to the overhead of encryption, not necessarily an issue depending on the use case, for webui stuff it'll be fine, but for heavier stuff like file transfers you may want to think again about utilising your Unraid server and the processing power you have with that.Sent from my Mi A1 using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment
ken-ji Posted July 16, 2018 Share Posted July 16, 2018 13 hours ago, CHBMB said: Only issue with using something like the Pine is it limits bandwidth due to the overhead of encryption, not necessarily an issue depending on the use case, for webui stuff it'll be fine, but for heavier stuff like file transfers you may want to think again about utilising your Unraid server and the processing power you have with that. Sent from my Mi A1 using Tapatalk Well i guess the OP can try it out (costs him just a bit of time) and decide if its good enough. Some claims it is more than enough https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=4671&pid=28747#pid28747 I, myself have linked my, my sibling and my parents place with Mikrotik hEX (RB750Gr3) routers everywhere with dual EoIP + GRE links (with IPSec) between both sites. (openVPN was too slow a protocol for this). I can also VPN in, but I don't like how Mikrotik openVPN is TCP only. It's not quite fast enough (my parents have only 20/20 vs 50/50) for some applications, but good enough to remotely watch from the Emby server, and unRAID.shares. and the absolute beauty is I can reboot, take down the array , etc kind of maintenance on unRAID without killing the VPN link - which is why its also a good idea/fallback for the OP Quote Link to comment
uldise Posted July 17, 2018 Share Posted July 17, 2018 7 hours ago, ken-ji said: I, myself have linked my, my sibling and my parents place with Mikrotik hEX (RB750Gr3) +1 for Mikrotik hEX - a have one too and it's working just fine with IPSec - it is doing IPSec at hardware level, so you can achieve very high results.. see here: https://mikrotik.com/product/RB750Gr3 Quote Link to comment
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