How to setup a Synology NAS (DSM 6) - Part 36: Configuring the macOS VPN Client to use L2TP/IPSec

Thank you :) Best video

That voice tho.. have you been considering switching career to singing ?

I Can't connect to the VPN for somereason same thing happens with remote access UNLESS i add the Port 5000 or 5001 to the end of it, this however does not seem to work for the VPN... is there a way to fix this?

Nevermind fixed it with proper port forwarding

I wished you were everybody's teacher, I bet you nobody would fail the exam. Please keep up with the good work, well done mate

worked a treat thank-you. Any news on the video for those of us already up and running before your series started so we missed the opportunity to create another admin / Admin ?

great instructional series, thanks. How about a session on the NAS DSM VPN vs the RT2600 SRM VPN Plus.

I've set up OpenVPN and i use it from an android smartphone and from a windows laptop.

I am really happy with how smooth it works although it was a little confusing during the configuration at some points.

Now i want to set it up at an Ubuntu laptop (same laptop, dual boot with Windows).
I've had some difficulties the first time i tried. I'll try again.



To the point now. I do not have "allow clients to access server's LAN" enabled. Nevertheless when connected to the VPN i have access to other devices at my local network, let's say my router. Do you have any explanation?


Unfortunately, i don't have a static IP from my ISP. I use No-IP free edition and it works just fine. Sadly DynDNS is not free as in the past.

Your series is fantastic and has been very helpful. Thank you for all of the time that you have put into it. Please consider doing an episode on Synology Drive and how to use it to sync to an offsite NAS.

I’ve found this series very helpful. When’s the next video coming out about setting up a DNS server? 🙂

By using the Synology NAS as the VPN server, does that mean the VPN client such as this Mac computer can only access the NAS and the NAS only over the Internet or does the established VPN tunnel "expose" the entire LAN to the Mac client where the Synology is a member device? If so, the Mac client can access all other resources within this LAN?

Waiting for the Windows version! :)