Hi,
I apologise for my extremely basic and probably stuipid question, please forgive me, this is the very first time I have tried VPN and I understand very little of it. I want to be able to use my PC, which is at my mountain cabin, to access my Synology NAS at home, for the purpose of watching ripped DVDs using KODI software. On the KODI forum I was advised to use OpenVPN to establish my connection between the PC and the NAS:
https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=355102
I have followed the steps on the Synology NAS (as far as I know), I have establised port forwaring rules on my router (again as far as I know) and I downloaded and installed OpenVPN client and OpenVPN Gui. I have followed the read me files to the letter I think. I have in my tray the a button that lets me Connect to VPNConfig when I right-click it. When I click it the following text is shown:
Wed Jun 17 12:39:08 2020 OpenVPN 2.4.9 x86_64-w64-mingw32 [SSL (OpenSSL)] [LZO] [LZ4] [PKCS11] [AEAD] built on Apr 16 2020
Wed Jun 17 12:39:08 2020 Windows version 6.1 (Windows 7) 64bit
Wed Jun 17 12:39:08 2020 library versions: OpenSSL 1.1.1f 31 Mar 2020, LZO 2.10
[color=#FF0000]Wed Jun 17 12:39:12 2020 WARNING: No server certificate verification method has been enabled. See http://openvpn.net/howto.html#mitm for more info.[/color]
Wed Jun 17 12:39:12 2020 TCP/UDP: Preserving recently used remote address: [AF_INET]51.175.151.85:1194
Wed Jun 17 12:39:12 2020 UDP link local (bound): [AF_INET][undef]:1194
Wed Jun 17 12:39:12 2020 UDP link remote: [AF_INET]51.175.151.85:1194
I have tried looking at this:
http://openvpn.net/howto.html#mitm but I quite simply do not understand anything on that site. I assume this means the OpenVPN doesn't work, although I do not get a more specific error message than the above.
I will be most grateful to anyone who can help me understand the basics here! 🙂
