I’m having some difficulty accessing my overseerr and calibre servers from outside the local network. I’m running NordVPN and I can access them when I don’t have the VPN on, but I run it all the time, so under that condition I can’t access my libraries remotely.

Edit: duh. I’m on Linux Mint 22.1

  • BombOmOmEnglish
    3•16 hours ago

    NordVPN can be set to allow LAN traffic through. So, if you setup port forwarding on your router, which it sounds like you already did, it will then allow that LAN traffic in.

      • BombOmOmEnglish
        5•15 hours ago

        Linux instructions:

        Relevant commands:

        • nordvpn settings - lists out settings
        • nordvpn set [SettingName] [NewValue] - sets the relavent setting
        • nordvpn whitelist add subnet [Mask] - whitelists the specified subnet to allow in traffic originating there
        • nordvpn d and nordvpn c - to disconnect and connect
        • ifconfig - gets your current IP

        Bringing it all together:

        1. Run ifconfig to get your current IP. It’s most likely 192.168.1.xxx

        2. Run nordvpn whitelist add subnet 192.168.1.0/24 to add your subnet to the whitelist (change the first three sections of the subnet to match what your IP is in the first command if it is different)

        3. Run nordvpn settings to view all settings and verify they look right, you should see your subnet in the whitelist section now

        4. Run nordvpn c to reconnect and apply your new settings

        Now LAN connections can reach your computer, even while it is connected to the VPN. For incomming WAN connections, verify port forwarding is setup on your router to point to the computer.

        Optional:

        1. Run nordvpn set analytics disabled to disable analytics