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I have a media server on my home network to which I can open ports as needed. For example, I can SSH into it from outside the home network. When traveling I'd like to use my laptop connected to the local network to make the media server "appear" on the local network so that things on the local network, such as a Roku, can discover services on the media server, such as DLNA. To my ears this sounds something like a reverse VPN and I assume it would involve some sort of network bridging on the local side.

I can install software as needed on both the remote media server and my local laptop, such as OpenVPN, etc.. Both the server and laptop are running Linux.

Ross Patterson
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  • Which OS are you using on your laptop? – Stuart Minchington Apr 09 '18 at 22:38
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    I added the OS, Linux. – Ross Patterson Apr 09 '18 at 22:56
  • You can use putty to establish a tunnel to the remove server; the tunnel can then be accessed via `localhost`; of course, this does nothing for network discovery, and other computers on your LAN cannot use the tunnel – JonathanDavidArndt Apr 10 '18 at 00:51
  • And discovery is the core of the question. – Ross Patterson Apr 10 '18 at 15:15
  • You pretty much answered your own question. Openvpn would work well here. Make it easy for yourself and install it at the router level. – Tim_Stewart Apr 10 '18 at 17:56
  • No, @Tim_Stewart, per the question, I am looking for the *reverse* of the typical OpenVPN usage. – Ross Patterson Apr 11 '18 at 17:44
  • How do you use OpenVPN when you're on the road to make the OpenVPN *server* appear as a local presence on the network you're at "on the road", @Tim_Stewart? – Ross Patterson Apr 12 '18 at 03:06
  • You use a VPN client to reach the tunnel network you created on your server. In this case you want the tunnel network as a portion of your home servers network address range.(bridged) or you won't be able to scan for media servers. Don't use a virtual IP pool. – Tim_Stewart Apr 12 '18 at 04:17
  • The reason I said bridge, is because I don't think DLNA works across network broadcast domains. Don't pin me down to that, I have heard you can do it under special circumstances by setting up special rules etc. I never confirmed it because it was really easy to get going bridged. – Tim_Stewart Apr 12 '18 at 12:29

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