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hello -

you port forward port 1194 in your router. How do you do that ? Beyond this scope of this forum.

You run QVPN on your QNAP. You download the .ovpn configuration file to your computer. On your remote computer (you appear to be using a Mac), you install www.tunnelblick.net, and put the .opvn file into Tunnelblick. You connect (it asks for your log in information).

Once it connects (which will NOT work unless you have done the port forwarding correctly in your router) - you now click on

GO> Connect To Server> smb://theipaddressof your QNAP in your local office

and it connects, and mounts on your desktop.

Setting up QVPN is easy. Port forwarding can be hard. I do this crap every day, and just today, I am suffering with a client that has a new Spectrum Sagemcom RAC2V1S router.

Every router is different. Some are easy, some are not. This is why this is not always an easy process.

Bob Zelin

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this is OpenVPN for Mac. Take the .ovpn file from your QNAP and drag it into the Tunnelblick icon on your Mac. It will ask for your computer password - and then the login info for the QNAP. You click "connect" for it to connect to the QNAP. Once that is done (it shows connected - and you can see this on the QVPN overview menu in the QNAP web browser) - now simply click on

GO> Connect To Server> theIPaddressOfYourQNAP

GO> Connect To Server> smb://192.168.1.19

and it will mount the QNAP on your remote computer.

Bob

L2TP/IPSec is terrible. It never stays connected.

For QVPN, I now use OpenVPN 95% of the time. You enable OpenVPN in the QNAP, download the .ovpn file from the OpenVPN menu, and it will go into your downloads folder on that computer. You MUST port forward your router - the default port is port 1194 UDP protocol, but you can change that number if you like (I usually leave it).

Then on your remote computer (which you can only properly test on another network - if you are testing this in your home or your office, use your CEL phone "hot spot" with a laptop to verify that this work - you must download OpenVPN on the Win 10PC, and put the .ovpn file that you downloaded from the QNAP QVPN menu into the Config menu. You will see instructions for this on YouTube, and on the OpenVPN web page.

If you are on a Mac, it's even easier - go to www.tunnelblick.net, download the STABLE version of Tunnelblick (which is OpenVPN for Mac) - run the installer. When it says "do you have the .ovpn configuration file" - you manually drag that file (the one you downloaded from the QVPN Open VPN menu) onto the Tunnelblick icon. It will ask for your password for the computer. You then Connect - once you connect, it asks for the QNAP login information for that computer - use your admin info while you are testing this. Once it says "connected" - which takes about 45 seconds, you simply click on GO> Connect To Server> enter the IP address like you would do in your office, and the QNAP appears.

QBelt is also very good. You download the QNAP QBelt installer from the QNAP website (not always easy to find). You have to enable QBelt in the QVPN menus, and I change the port from the default of 443 to 4433 (because when you watch the YouTube video demonstrations of how this works - that is the port they use). And of course, you must port forward 4433, also with the UDP protocol.

Bob Zelin