I am new to the whole networking/vpn scene and would like to be able to access my home network securely when I am away from home. Currently I have pi-hole setup with OpenVPN on it (not configured/setup yet) and my home router is a Tomato Router (Similar to Open WRT). I tried setting the protonvpn up on my home router under the VPN section, but no luck. Any advice or help is greatly appreciated.
You cannot do / achieve that by using PVPN.
What you’re trying to do is set up your own VPN, not utilizing ProtonVPN. If you use ProtonVPN you are always connecting to a ProtonVPN server.
“Use ProtonVPN to access home network” → no
As everyone before said : ProtonVPN will give you access to ProtonVPN servers. It’s a vpn provider as a result it can “only” gives you his own servers to access.
If you really want to access your home network from anywhere then you need to become your own vpn provider. Which means our router or RaspBerryPi at home has to run a vpn server. Some ideas here :
https://www.reddit.com/r/pihole/comments/5w0icl/easiest_way_to_configure_a_vpn_into_pihole/
https://www.howtogeek.com/60774/connect-to-your-home-network-from-anywhere-with-openvpn-and-tomato/
If you do more search on the topic “how to run my own vpn server+tomato router+openvpn” you’ll find a lot of tutorials everywhere.
That’s not what protonvpn is for, sorry.
Do yourself a favor and download something like TeamViewer and call it a day. If you’re wondering about how ProtonVPN would be configured to access your home LAN then messing around with your own home VPN implementation is going to be over your head. No offense meant, but ya, what you want is achieved more easily with less technical experience.
You could install Tor, and set up a hidden service for your remote desktop server, your ssh daemon, etc.
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I would suggest looking at ZeroTier product. It works along side Proton just fine and accomplishes what your looking to do.
This. You need to build a VPN on your home network to be able to do this.
great idea, thank you!