VPN on virtual machine

[Jim]

Thanks for the advice.  I'll have to do some more reading to understand 
all that well enough to try it myself, and get some cash together before 
I buy a computer that will support all that.

I have a Dell 32 bit dinosaur (wallace kubuntu 14) and this computer 
(ladmo kubuntu 18 64 bit).  I have apache2 on wallace so I can share the 
occasional file with friends.  Instead of taking a short sound clip and 
making a video out of it so I can share it with friends on facebook, I 
just put it on wallace and give them the url.  I also keep copies of my 
pictures and music collection on wallace.  So I have /var/www/html on 
wallace and the user account on wallace mounted on ladmo via nfs.   I 
also have an ssh server on wallace so I can access it from ladmo and so 
I can transfer files between my phone and wallace via sftp.  I had 
wallace connected to the router via the 100 mbit nic built into it until 
Saturday when I found a gigabit nic in the cabinet where I keep boxes of 
parts.

Good luck with your setup Michael.  I would suspect nobody knows what 
you're doing online except the CIA. :-)


On 09/19/2018 10:34 PM, Michael Butash wrote:
> I use transmission-daemon as a server on the vm with the vpn, and 
> connect to the server on port 9091 with a transmission-remote client 
> on your local lan workstation.  The vpn should override your default 
> routing, and make sure to kill ipv6 as a sysctl too.  I setup a dns 
> for the local server ip running the transmission server, and make it 
> available on a bridged interface to the rest of my lan.  I use 
> stickshift on my phone to manage/view them then.  I usually run squid 
> socks proxy on it too, using a proxy switcher on chrome as an 
> extension to flip between on and off use out that connection as well.
>
> For extra credit, I setup unbound to do encrypted dns to cloudflare on 
> it via some google tutorials, and I use zerotier as a link all my 
> servers and clients into a local-ish lan vpn that I can access on 
> cell, work, public wifi, wherever really.  Check them out at 
> zerotier.com <http://zerotier.com>.
>
> -mb
>
> On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 3:56 PM Jim <jim.nantz15 at comcast.net 
> <mailto:jim.nantz15 at comcast.net>> wrote:
>
>     I finally got the vpn working, but I'm having trouble with
>     bittorrent.  So far I've tried Deluge. The next time I have time
>     to mess with it, I can try another bittorrent client.  Michael,
>     which one do you use?
>
>
>     On 09/18/2018 11:35 AM, Michael Butash wrote:
>>     How are you configuring the openvpn connection? Using PIA vpn,
>>     they give you an openvpn file to connect with, or at least did
>>     last I set it up, and otherwise should just need the package
>>     dependencies installed with openvpn.
>>
>>     I'd say launch openvpn via the cli in debug to see what errors
>>     it's giving with the ovpn file.
>>
>>     Bridge or nat should be irrelevant, I've run mine both ways.  You
>>     should only need ports 1194 out to your VPN provider, you don't
>>     need to port forward one back, and actually recommend you do NOT
>>     unless you're wanting an openvpn server yourself to connect back
>>     to.  Mine works fine out via NAT.
>>
>>     -mb
>>
>>     On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 10:57 PM Jim <jim.nantz15 at comcast.net
>>     <mailto:jim.nantz15 at comcast.net>> wrote:
>>
>>         I decided to try a virtual machine for bittorrent.  The host
>>         machine
>>         runs kubuntu 14.04 with 4GB RAM. I've installed virtualbox
>>         5.2.18.  The
>>         virtual machine is running lubuntu 18 and has 1GB RAM.  The
>>         problem is
>>         with the vpn.  I can't get openvpn or pptp to work.  I
>>         configured them
>>         using the same instructions I did on the host machine.  When
>>         I try to
>>         start a VPN connction(openvpn or pptp)  on the guest machine,
>>         the icon
>>         appears to show it's trying to connect, then it just stops
>>         without
>>         offering any error message.  In  Virtualbox's settings for
>>         the guest
>>         machine under network, I chose attached to NAT.
>>
>>         Any ideas what I should do different?
>>
>>         thanks
>>
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