Pommes wrote: > Dear forum members. > I have been able to use picoreplayer with open VPN to connect to my LMS > at home, it is working very well. > But I also have squeezebox touches and a Radio, on which open VPN is not > possible. > The use case is unclear to me. Would you be taking those devices along on travels and attempt connect through hotel or other public access points? If that is the case I would let the idea go.
> > My LMS is running on a dedicated picore raspberry 4, the music is on a > Nas, accessed via NFS mount. > So I have a few questions: > Is it in theory possible, that somebody could create some kind of open > VPN client app, which one could install on the squeezebox touch and > radio itself? > In theory yes, but the first challenge would be to get the kernel modules > > If I open the LMS ports, so the touches can access LMS, what would I > risk? Would it be possible that somebody could delete all the music on > the NFS share? > If only the LMS itself would be at risk, I do not worry too much, > because I have a few back ups of the whole LMS system. > That will depend on whether the LMS user has write privileges to the share, which it will likely have to be able to store playlists. > > Would it be possible , that there would be some kind of Mac filter in > LMS, so only whitelisted devices could access the LMS in my home > network? > Not that I'm aware of, but this might be set up using iptables rules. The main problem here however is that as you will be traveling multiple routers the LMS machine will never actually see the originating MAC address. > > Please let me know if you have any other tips or insight regarding my > situation. > It is quite possible that your ISP provided internet router has some type of VPN capability, or you could replace it with one that has, or cascade one behind it. Provided you control the network on both ends of the connection you could then set up site-to-site VPN and not need to worry about individual devices. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ gordonb3's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=71050 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=114055 _______________________________________________ Squeezecenter mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/squeezecenter
