How do I Browse/Map USB Disk over VPN?

[ctenorman]

Hi,

I just picked up the RT-N66u - I love it!

However, after setting up the VPN and successfully connecting to my network from another connection, I'm unable to browse my USB disk or map it. Does any one know how to accomplish this? Thanks!

 

[RMerlin]

Hi,

I just picked up the RT-N66u - I love it!

However, after setting up the VPN and successfully connecting to my network from another connection, I'm unable to browse my USB disk or map it. Does any one know how to accomplish this? Thanks!

Why not use AiCloud? It will make it much easier.

 

[ctenorman]

AiCloud is good for some things I want to do, but I need to be able to map the network drive in this case. I'm storing all my picasa pictures on the USB drive on the router, and Picasa can only see a mapped network drive with a drive letter, otherwise I'd just use an FTP network location. I'd like to be able to access it while I'm not connected through my router since I'd like to be able to show off photos, movies, etc when I'm visiting family.

If there's another way to accomplish this I'd be all for it, I'm just not sure what that would be.

Thanks!

 

[RMerlin]

Set your VPN IP range to be within the same network as your LAN. For example, set DHCP to assign IPs in the 192.168.1.2 to 192.168.1.199 range. Then, set the VPN to assign IPs in the 192.168.1.200 to 192.168.1.210 range. That way your VPN clients will be able to directly route to the LAN clients over the VPN without requiring you to setup a static route on the VPN client (which is needed if you use the default 192.168.10.xx network range for VPN clients).

You should be able then to map network drives by using the file server IPs. Name resolution could be made to work, but it's always tricky and not too reliable over a PPTP VPN in my personal experience.

 

[ctenorman]

Fantastic, I'll give it a run, thank you!

 

[ctenorman]

My gosh, it works perfectly, I can't thank you enough for this!! You've absolutely made my day and my wife will be thrilled!!