Synology NAS OpenVPN Server Setup & Configuration! (Tutorial)

This tutorial will guide you through the process of configuring OpenVPN on your Synology NAS! This tutorial will guide you through the entire setup process to ensure you set everything up properly, the first time! Make sure that you check out the written instructions as they help guide you through the process and allow you to follow along as we setup OpenVPN on our Synology NAS!

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[princequeequeg]

I have watched about 30 tutorials by various providers concerning Synology NAS and its packages. I plan to use one to serve a small business where we desperately need reliable backup, sync and remote access to everything. I almost never comment. Just watch. But your tutorials are so exceptionally well done that I am compelled to let you know how much I appreciate them and how enlightening they have been to me. You teaching method is outstanding. If you don't already teach for a university, you certainly should consider it. Thank you so very much for these. I look forward to watching all that you have created.

[smirob]

I very much appreciate your videos, brother. They are direct, concise, informative, yet not littered with so much "tech jargon" that the average person cannot understand or follow the train of thought. If I may make one suggestion, it would appear that several of these synology videos have a single thread running through them. For instance this one, setting up a VPN, or the one that shows how to enable DDNS. It would be helpful for those of us who don't understand the entire process, to view a flow chart or diagram at the beginning of what will be required, instead of saying half way through the video that you should already have "DDNS set up" or you have have already had "VPN set up". Knowing in advance, would be very helpful and keep us from jumping back and forth between different videos, while trying to figure out if we have everything that's required for setup.
Thanks again for such a great how to here. You are truly

[spokje]

Wow, this is super helpful. Thank you so much. I was tinkering with site to site VPN through my router directly, but this is way easier and more logical (DS720+ can handle is easily). Thank you so much for this well explained video!

Edit: What might be a tip: Config your port forwarding as follows: Instead of forwarding UDP 1194 to your NAS, Forward UDP 443 (WAN) to you NAS UDP 1194 (LAN) instead. That way, you open UDP port 443 on the outside. The reason for this: Many public Wifi has port 1194 (for outgoing traffic) blocked. If that's the case you wouldn't be able to connect to your home VPN. Port 443 is almost always open because it's the port for HTTPS traffic.

So: Open UDP 443 (OUTSIDE), forward it to UDP 1194 (to NAS). Don't forget to change the port to 443 in the openvpn config file as well.

I hope this helps some people :) but this video rocks. Thanks!

[whiskerjones]

Great video!! Short and to the point without the needless carrying on like most tech guides tend to do.

[carsQhere]

This is excellent. No waffle, just straight to the point for those of us who need to "just get it done". Thank you!

[mikeoreilly]

I've watched a lot of your videos and they're all very good, but I, for one, could use a little more explanation aimed at clueless noobs. Thanks for all your effort.

[MotorcyclistDiaries]

Thank you very much! Very very useful tutorial provided, started from "Complete Synology NAS Setup Guide" video.

[peterwong]

Thanks, exactly what I was looking for. Now I can connect to my NAS from my laptop when I'm away from home

[fransvanderwerf]

you asked if we like your videos? Speaking for myself here, I think your video's and documentations attached, helped me to go through the first bits on setting up and inspired me to learn more. So I'd say, your presentations are just brilliant and extremely helpful. Got to understand this for me complex topic much better - since I tended to ignore this kind of thing I guess.. - and inspired me to understand the whole thing around the in my case Synology ds220+ NAS, to a level of detail that I else would have left aside. So, many thanks for your great efforts to share your expert level knowledge you have obtained over time with all of the people on your channel. I gather most will feel alike me, humble in listening and reading getting to a better understanding and beyond.

[brianreay]

A very good tutorial. Enough background to aid understanding without ‘waffle’. Thank you.

[matzzeglaeser]

thank you a lot. I like the condensed format. Your videos help me a lot!!

[geoffchr]

Sometimes I have to stay in Turkey where most VPNs are blocked. Thanks to your clear and detailed tutorial I have set up my own VPN to access web sites via my NAS. Tested via my phone, fingers crossed when I head for Turkey... Thank you so much.

[josiahnewman]

First tutorial I’ve seen and helped me understand self hosted vpns a lot. I’m not an IT guy but this makes me feel like I could handle it on my own.

[luima]

Very good pacing and very informative and direct. Having the write-ups alongside really made this perfect. Thank you and please keep making videos.

[jmcbike]

Excellent video!! There must be 100 misleading videos out there, this one was quick and easy. Synology isn't much help, nor is the OpenVPN app. Like those guys are so into programming, they forgot the users and really can't explain what they did.

[lucr]

Hi ...
Just a small feedback for all your videos I was checking today, as I just found your channel while searching for cross-side Synology Backup with a friend of mine. Your videos are just simply superb!!! They are straight through the topics, short precise fast comment. Incredible efficient! That's the best ever format I have found on youtube! You are definitely a master in giving the needed information! Great idea to have the detailled step by step part in a document, for whoever wants to get it more detaied ... Videos were far enough so far .. So thanks for your way to spread valuable information in these very efficient videos. Greeting from Luxembourg/Europe ;-)

[spencerkormos]

This was really useful! I appreciated the highlights of the configurations, and the required digression into Split vs Full tunnel. Well done, and thank you!

[AlergicToSnow]

Awesome. I’d really appreciate a full explanation. I’m new to all this and I’m trying to learn as much as possible. Although I’m fairly tech savvy ie I understand to a decent degree what you’re doing and explaining, I’m quite uncomfortable turning something on without knowing all the options and consequences. It’s the difference if it doesn’t work for some reason and I have to troubleshoot effectively instead of just fumbling around.

[hellblast]

Howdy! I'd like to add the following information in case somebody else is in the same situation: My ISP uses a DS-Lite Tunnel for IPv4, therefore VPN access over IPv4 is impossible - no error message says so and it took me ten days to figure out this problem. In order to get around this DS-Lite tunnel, PCP is necessary. Alternatively, I'll see if Tailscale works. WebDAV might be another option because of the ports it uses.
If you're on a Fritz!Box Router, then you can tell you have this setup from your ISP by verifying that DS-Lite Tunnel is shown under "Internet, IPv4" under INTERNET->ONLINE-MONITOR.

[chriskemp]

Great tutorial, clear video/audio, and well spoken (excellent tone for tuition)