How is your home network connecting to the backup server’s network without port forwarding over the internet? Isn’t the firewall at the destination server also forwarding ports?
Or is your backup server connecting to your home network via the VPN?
Regardless, you can always spinup a wireguard vpn server VM on your home network on TrueNAS instead of using OpenVPN. Wireguard throughput will always be better using far less resources.
Yea that seems to be the issue. No idea why they decided to remove openvpn built in without a replacement as I use it like you do too.
using zerotier a few years, no need for openVPN and would never ever change to openVPN over Zerotier, ZT is just better
Don’t understand what you mean. If you can’t hook up a router, then how are you going to hook up TrueNAS? Use the router’s VPN client in place of TrueNAS’s one.
My backupserver is running the OpenVPN client through the TrueNAS GUI and connecting to my home network. I’m then able to reach my backupserver through the OpenVPN network with my Homeserver.
I’ve seen that Wireguard is availabe as an App on Scale - although it’s containerized, will I still be able to access the host through the wireguard VPN network from my machine at home?
Never worked with Wireguard before tbh.
That’s the problem I will be facing now - so far I’m running the OpenVPN client directly through the TrueNAS GUI on the remote machine, which is then directly connecting to my home network.
i use the wg-easy container and love it for accessing my home server while away.
the issue with what u are trying to do is using a wireguard conf file on truenas scale to make the entire machine a client. it super easy for a phone or laptop or whatever, but i dont know how to make an instance of truenas a client on wireguard.
Ok… Then what’s stopping you from configuring a router off site to use its OpenVPN client, which will then let you connect any devices behind it to your home network? Nested LAN isn’t some kind of arcane magic you know.
That’s a good idea, thanks! I’ll look into that one.