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VPN Connection to Home network

Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2020 3:30 pm
by Dimi
Hello,

I have installed SoftEther VPN Server on my home PC and SoftEther VPN Client on my notebook. I have managed to establish connection and I can access other devices on my network. To be sure, my notebook is connected to the internet through my phone hotspot. So far so good.
The problem occurs when I try to access service that is running on my Home PC/VPN Server. For example, I have web interface for Universal media server running on port 9001. IP of home PC/VPN Server is 192.168.0.3. If I try to access 192.168.0.3:9001 from any other device on my home network it works, but if I try to do it from notebook while connected through VPN it doesn't. If I disable VPN connection and connect to home network Wi-Fi, everything works.

Any help is appreciated.

Re: VPN Connection to Home network

Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2020 9:48 pm
by Dimi
Just wanted to inform everyone it's fixed.

For anybody that may stump in the same situation. Problem was that connection was entering circle. It was using 192.168.0.3 to access LAN and then was searching for 192.168.0.3 on the network. Solution was to add second IP (in my case 192.168.0.99) in Network Adapter -> Properties -> Internet Protocol 4 -> Advanced -> IP -> Add. Once I did that I forced all other servers that use specific IP to use 192.168.0.99 instead of 192.168.0.3. Only difference is that now I type 192.168.0.99 instead of 192.168.0.3. Once this was done, everything worked like a charm.

This can be locked.