Extreme Confusion Regarding Setting Up a VPN on my Netgear R6350 Router

MARIOGUY789

I hope everyone who reads this can understand that I am an extremely incompetent person when it comes to networking and setting up things that aren't basic software, so please be patient if you decide to answer. Let me give you a rundown of what exactly is going on.

A little backstory (skip two paragraphs if you don't care):

I purchased a Netgear R6350 AC1750 Dual Band router a while ago so that my friend and I could set up a VPN and do some LAN gaming (he's the one that got me thinking about this). While he didn't have a Netgear router (he had an ASUS router), I knew that Netgear routers would be able to have a VPN service, so I picked one up, thinking it would be a relatively simple process, long story short, here we are months later with no results.

My first confusion was in the fact that when I tried to set up my router's VPN service a while ago, it gave me a message that said something about needing a static IP or a DDNS account. I setup my static IP, but it still gave me the message. Yesterday, I got that resolved by simply setting up a DDNS account instead. With that, my VPN service was running, and just needed to be configured using OpenVPN. Here's where I lost my mind, all within six hours. Because I've established the fact that I'm not good with this kind of stuff, you'll probably see where this is going.

I downloaded and extracted both the OpenVPN GUI and the certificate files needed for the server. I copied the certificate files into the config folder, and accepted them... or so I thought. Every time I start this server it says: "No server certificate verification method has been enabled." Being the person I am, I don't know what this means or how to fix it, or if it has anything to do with my server's operation (that's why I'm here). So for several hours my friend and I went back and forth on the fact that he didn't know what would be wrong, until he came to the realization that the client files needed to be sent to him. I gave the files to him, he installed everything, and tried to connect. This is where I am currently, just to let you know. We were almost happy to know that he connected, until we tested the LAN operations with Minecraft. He and I both opened a world to LAN, however, neither of us were able to connect to said worlds because they didn't show up in the local games tab. He tried to confirm his connection by saying that the local IPs were the same, but nothing else was working.

So there you go. I am just trying to understand exactly what is wrong with my VPN or if there was something I did that wasn't correct. If anyone can tell me what is wrong, or walk me through the process of setting the entire thing up from scratch, I'd be incredibly thankful, as all I'm trying to do is have some fun with my friend.

Thanks for reading.

-MARIOGUY789

TinCanTech

Hi there,

MARIOGUY789 wrote I am an extremely incompetent person when it comes to ..

we have no idea what you are talking about.

Please see: https://forums.openvpn.net/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=22603#p68963

Thanks for taking the time to read.

MARIOGUY789

Hey, TinCanTech, thanks for taking the time to read my post, I wrote it in a hurry because I was incredibly frustrated. I can't really provide you with any of the information you've requested. The long and short of what I was trying to say is that I have no idea what I'm doing, and the guides don't help because I'm not too technically minded when it comes to doing any of this. This is my first time trying to set up a VPN, and I'm just really confused. If you know of anyone who can walk me through the process of setting the whole thing up, I'd be glad to start over from scratch.

TinCanTech

MARIOGUY789 wrote I am an extremely incompetent person when it comes to networking

MARIOGUY789 wrote The long and short of what I was trying to say is that I have no idea what I'm doing

Oh well .. you can either read the howto and such ..

or you can email me for personal support: tincanteksup <at> gmail

Or some other social media more suited to you.