Enabling VPN in a home NAS is a good way – some might say paramount requirement – to preserve your privacy when using certain applications. While the highest flexibility comes from running the NAS directly in a Linux machine, out-of-the-box solutions can win in convenience thanks to built-in applications and mobile App support. One of such solutions is Synology. In this post I will describe how to setup OpenVPN in a Synology NAS while still preserving access from the outside.

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