curlydog Hi folks, first post so please be gentle. I've setup up my first ever VPN. I have openVPN server running on my router (running TomatoUSB Shibby). On my phone I have android connect client. SO far I have managed to connect to my VPN. My phone is issued a correct IP from the VPN subnet. I can ping my phone from any host on my LAN. From my phone, I can ping my Tomato USB router, another router i have running in bridge mode and a wireless printer. I cannot ping computers on my LAN from my phone. I also have several shared folders on hosts on my LAN and via USB on my second router. I also have a couple of DNLA media servers running. When I connect my phone directly to my LAN via wireless I can see all of these shares/media servers. When I connect via VPN I can't see any of them. I know I have connected to the VPN as I can ping the LAN infrastructure. However I can't access the resources on the hosts. It's strange all the computers on the LAN can ping the phone, but the phone can only ping the routers and the wireless printer. I have some limited network knowledge, but none in terms of VPN. I'm guessing it's some sort of permissions/firewall issue. Does anyone have any suggestions to point me in the right direction? Many thanks
Traffic curlydog wroteI can ping my phone from any host on my LANcurlydog wroteI cannot ping computers on my LAN from my phoneConfigure your machine firewalls, on every LAN host, to allow incoming ICMP echo request ...
curlydog Thanks traffic, that seems to be the heart of the problem. Having turned off the windows firewall on one of my hosts I can gain access to it's shares. I note that it's the private, not public network firewall that's doing the blocking. I just need to figure out a firewall rule that will allow access via android connect. In the past all of the rules I've created relate to a particular program or port not general access to shared resources.
curlydog I think I'm heading down the right track. For others with a similar issue, it appears to be a problem with the host connected via vpn being on a different subnet to the host. SOfar I've created a firewall rule to allow all traffic from my vpn subnet. It's working, although I'm a little concerned that the rule is very broad and could make the host vulnerable in some way. I think I need to rry and find something a little more specific if I can, but for now I can access the hosts resources.
