How do I use Sickbeard, Couch Potato, Netflix, etc. with my VPN? I can’t connect to the local host. I honestly have no idea what I am doing. I used the guide on the sidebar and followed how to setup all this stuff but I can’t figure out how to access any of this stuff using my VPN. What am I missing?
A bit more information on what your setup is and what you are trying to do will go a long way towards resolution. When you say you are using VPN I would assume that you are outside of your Media Systems. Have you set up the proper ports through your firewall to access your VPN server? Does your local system register a connection when you access via VPN? Are you able to get to other services on computers behind the VPN (e.g., SSH or http) for a further connection test? Are the IP addresses the VPN gives out to remote computers able to access the Media Servers. Do you already have the media servers working? What VPN server are you using? Does it require a special Client to access the VPN server? Are we talking Mac, PC, Ubuntu and what versions of software are you using? And, do you have sufficient bandwidth in your network to handle the streaming?
I could get real snarky here and complain about your lack of knowledge on VPNs but that won’t help you with your problem and I do honestly want to help. Let’s start with some more info - what is your system layout and what are you trying to do?
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What VPN are you using?
I don’t know a lot of that information. I have Plex working. I am using IPVanish as my VPN with the OpenVPN protocol and set it up using the IPVanish website setup guide with Tunnelblick and all that. I don’t know what a “special client to access the VPN server” means. I am on a Mac OSX 10.7 Lion. I have cable internet and streaming seems to work good.
I don’t know how a lot of this works but I’m willing to learn. I am basically just using the tutorial that was on the sidebar of the /r/cordcutters. The one from totalhtcp that walks you through setting up Sab, Sickbeard and Couch Potato. I didn’t setup Headphones because I don’t care about music. I basically just want to use Sickbeard and Couch Potato and use Plex to play everything. So far I’ve only used nzbmatrix to download nzb files and uploaded them to Sab and downloaded files that way. The files work great, go to Plex and I’m able to play them fine.
I really wish I knew more than this but I’m starting from the beginning on all this stuff. Gotta start somewhere I suppose. Thanks for your help.
IPVanish with OpenVPN.