Hi all - thanks in advance. Pretty new to all of this so likely a boneheaded mistake. But making progress with some help from people here.
I have an ASUS router with OpenVPN setup but struggling to connect while away from home LAN without disabling "LAN Only" on users tab.
At home - I can connect to BI mobile app and UI3. I know my OpenVPN working correctly as I can see it connected on ASUS GUI and also on a laptop I can see the other things on my network (BI desktop, Sonos, etc.).
However, unless I toggle "LAN Only" off I cannot access BI mobile app with OpenVPN running while trying to access outside my home / LAN.
I then started messing around with port forwarding rules on ASUS (flashed Merlin) as it seemed to me the likely culprit was that the BI desktop was not reading the android/device as being on the LAN even though I was OpenVPN'd in. However, then I was able to connect to BI mobile app openly without OpenVPN running. So took 3 steps back there...
So I turned port forwarding off and now only able to connect to BI mobile app with OpenVPN running but "LAN only" has to be unchecked. Seems more secure than the above alternative.
I am going to keep playing with the ASUS router settings but my question is in the meantime, is is safe enough to keep "LAN only" unchecked (port forwarding is off) or am I negating everything by doing this.
Second question - if anyone has any pointers on how to fix this would appreciate it. Starting to run out of things to change.
thanks all
I have an ASUS router with OpenVPN setup but struggling to connect while away from home LAN without disabling "LAN Only" on users tab.
At home - I can connect to BI mobile app and UI3. I know my OpenVPN working correctly as I can see it connected on ASUS GUI and also on a laptop I can see the other things on my network (BI desktop, Sonos, etc.).
However, unless I toggle "LAN Only" off I cannot access BI mobile app with OpenVPN running while trying to access outside my home / LAN.
I then started messing around with port forwarding rules on ASUS (flashed Merlin) as it seemed to me the likely culprit was that the BI desktop was not reading the android/device as being on the LAN even though I was OpenVPN'd in. However, then I was able to connect to BI mobile app openly without OpenVPN running. So took 3 steps back there...
So I turned port forwarding off and now only able to connect to BI mobile app with OpenVPN running but "LAN only" has to be unchecked. Seems more secure than the above alternative.
I am going to keep playing with the ASUS router settings but my question is in the meantime, is is safe enough to keep "LAN only" unchecked (port forwarding is off) or am I negating everything by doing this.
Second question - if anyone has any pointers on how to fix this would appreciate it. Starting to run out of things to change.
thanks all
