Accessing VPN help

tidusjar · 23 Sep 2013 at 13:54

I'm new to all this VPN malarkey so please be patient.

So I have paid for a 3rd party VPN. Now I want to access my network (RaspberryPi) from an external network e.g. Work to be able to access Deluge WebUI for example or VNC onto it.

I believe a VPN works like this:

Raspberry---->Router---->VPN---->Internet

How would I go about doing this? Can I go:

Me(External Network)---->Internet ---->VPN<---->Router<---->Raspberry?
If so how?

edscdk · 23 Sep 2013 at 14:20

Not sure of your setup? 3rd party vpn? You mean you purchased some software that's running on a pc?

tidusjar · 23 Sep 2013 at 15:07

edscdk said:
Not sure of your setup? 3rd party vpn? You mean you purchased some software that's running on a pc?

Yeah

ASE001 · 23 Sep 2013 at 16:31

Search for OpenVPN on YouTube, loads of tutorials on how it works and use this as a starting point.

KIA · 23 Sep 2013 at 17:50

Which OS do you have on the Pi?

tidusjar · 24 Sep 2013 at 08:10

KIA said:
Which OS do you have on the Pi?

Raspbian

KIA · 24 Sep 2013 at 12:51

You should be able to install OpenVPN-AS. http://openvpn.net/index.php/access-server/download-openvpn-as-sw/113.html?osfamily=Debian

visibleman · 24 Sep 2013 at 13:16

Confused to where the third-party VPN comes in but if you're wanting to setup a VPN server on the RPi then use PPTP - plenty of tutorials (HERE, HERE, HERE etc) if you do a Google and it's relatively straight forward to setup.
I've been running it on my RPi for a while without issue and it's extremely useful if using public WiFi on my devices.

e - Alternatively look at L2TP if you're worried about security concerns that surround PPTP. Personally i wouldn't go with OpenVPN on a RPi unless the RPi is solely going to be used as a VPN gateway as it hammers resources.