How to connect to home network through VpnVM?

[Gaiko Kyofusho]

 I have noticed that I am not able to connect to my home network server using nautilus

 smb://servername/

 

or via cmdline

 

 sudo mount -t cifs //servername/directory ~/localDir2MountOn/ -o user=u sername,password=password

 

 Thing is when my appvm is using the VpnVM the mounting process gives me  an error (times out i think) but if I switch my appvm to the regular firewallVM then they mount just fine?

 

 So, is there a way to get around this without giving up the using the V PN?

 Thx!

[Chris Laprise]

The simplest and most secure way is to have another appVM access the LAN
through sys-firewall.

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[Gaiko Kyofusho]

Doh... I was hoping there was another (safe) way, but can do that, just need to get myself in the habit I guess.

Thx

[Chris Laprise]

On 05/09/2017 08:37 AM, Gaiko Kyofusho wrote:
> Doh... I was hoping there was another (safe) way, but can do that, just
> need to get myself in the habit I guess.
> Thx

You could add a rule like this to the top of your FORWARD chain:
-I FORWARD -i vif+ -o eth0 -d lan_subnet_here -j ACCEPT

Depending on how your VPN provider configured the VPN route commands,
this may allow your VMs to talk to the LAN through the VPN VM. But there
is no easy way to (consistently) allow this for only particular appVMs
and there is the risk that a compromised appVM could attack devices on
your LAN, identify you to third parties, etc.