PPTP alternative

Jamauk · 2 Oct 2016 at 14:52

As I'm sure most on here that have Apple devices and have upgraded to IOS 10 are aware the PPTP VPN option has been removed. Quite understandable due to the security risks of it.

This however leaves me looking for an alternative option and how to set it up. I've got a Asus RT-N16 router running Tomato firmware (1.28). I have the VPN setup on the router with the certificate and keys but cannot work out how to get my iPhone or iPad to connect to it - Any help would be much appreciated.

Jamauk · 2 Oct 2016 at 21:38

Thanks for the replies, I'll look into it in more detail tomorrow, today has been a bit busy...

Jamauk · 24 Oct 2016 at 18:54

Once again thanks for the replies.

I've since got OpenVPN working with my router (Asus RT-N16 with Tomato v1.28) as a server. All clients can now connect to it however one problem I've found on PC/Laptops is that shared drives don't connect and will only work when using the IP, is this a DNS issue and how do I resolve this? Whilst I could change the shared from \\server\xxxx to \\192.168.1.xxx\xxxx I'd rather not, and it makes things awquard should I decide to change IP's around in the future.

Jamauk · 24 Oct 2016 at 21:33

Thanks, that worked.

For anyone interested I modified the hosts.ics file in:

C:\WINDOWS\System32\drivers\etc\

By simply adding:

192.168.1.247 server
192.168.1.237 CCTV
192.168.1.24 SERVER01
etc......

To the end of the file. I've copied this to various computers now and all seem to point back to the right location.

Thanks again, saved me a lot of time, I thought worst case scenario would be changing all hostnames to IP addresses.