Accessing home network remotly

[IgorM]

I'm a networking noob and I want to know how can I access my computer and router connected to my home network remotly? I've seen that you have to use port forwarding and such. I don't have any special enterprise gear and I want some simple and easy solution

[Electronics Wizardy]

What do you want to access?

 

The lazy way is teamviewer, A vpn is the secure solution.

[IgorM]

Just now, Electronics Wizardy said:

What do you want to access?

 

The lazy way is teamviewer, A vpn is the secure solution.

the router config page and files on my computer for example

[Electronics Wizardy]

Just now, IgorM said:

the router config page and files on my computer for example

Try teamviewer, simple and failry secure.

[IgorM]

2 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Try teamviewer, simple and failry secure.

I want some way that I could type some url on any browser and connect to a device like I do when I go to 192.168.0.1 on my home network

[Electronics Wizardy]

3 minutes ago, IgorM said:

I want some way that I could type some url on any browser and connect to a device like I do when I go to 192.168.0.1 on my home network

Problem is doing this often is much harder and has lots of secuirty issues.

 

Making your router like that on the internet is normally a very bad idea as there are lots of secuity holes on most routers and someone may get control of it doing so.

 

Other problem is ip. Do you have a static IP

[IgorM]

1 minute ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

 

Other problem is ip. Do you have a static IP

no

[Razor Blade]

You could setup an openVPN server. If you don't have the hardware to do so you could use a VPS service. There are tutorials all over on how to do this.

 

One example for VPS and CentOS 6 (kind of an old tutorial so there might be more updated ones available out there)

https://www.bestvpn.com/roll-openvpn-server-vps-using-centos-6/

[IgorM]

12 minutes ago, Razor Blade said:

You could setup an openVPN server. If you don't have the hardware to do so you could use a VPS service. There are tutorials all over on how to do this.

 

One example for VPS and CentOS 6 (kind of an old tutorial so there might be more updated ones available out there)

https://www.bestvpn.com/roll-openvpn-server-vps-using-centos-6/

I'm currently trying to configure noip here

[jde3]

SSH local port forward is a good way to do this.

 

ssh -L [bind_address:]port:host:hostport

 

So just... like..

 

ssh -L 443:192.168.0.1:443 username@yourhomesshserver

Then open localhost:443 in your browser.. magic.