However, it would be even more seamless if you assign these devices a static IP so that you don’t have to re-establish a connection whenever your router assigns a new one. Setting up and Accessing Shared folders is relatively easy and you don’t need to install any additional hardware. Enable File Sharing and Share a Folder on Mac After the VPN client is connected, it obtains a VPN IP as 172.30.50.1.Ĭonfiguration screenshot of the Omada Gateway in standalone mode.Ĭonfiguration screenshot of the Omada SDN Controller.If you want to share the folders on Windows and access it from a Mac instead then you can follow the steps in this article on how to access Windows Shared folders on a Mac.

For example, if LAN IP is 172.30.30.1, then the VPN IP Pool should be 172.30.X.Y.įor example, here we set up the LAN IP of the VPN router as 172.30.30.1/24, and the VPN IP Pool as 172.30.50.1 – 172.30.50.20 (for standalone mode) or 172.30.50.1/24 (for Omada SDN Controller). Note: If you use a Class B network, make sure the second segments of the IP addresses of the LAN IP and the VPN IP are the same.

Modify the LAN IP and VPN IP Pool to Class A or B addresses, so that the routing table generated after connecting to the VPN server, ensures that it can access the remote network.Ĭlass A network include IP addresses: 10.0.0.0 to 10.255.255.255 while Class B network include: 172.16.0.0 to 172.31.255.255. Set up Class A or B network for the LAN IP and VPN IP Pool. After connection, all traffic will be forwarded to the VPN server, Mac can access both the Internet and remote network. Go to System Preferences – Network, find your VPN connections, go to Advanced, check “Send all traffic over VPN connection”, click “OK”, then click “Apply” to enable the settings.

Since the Windows client works fine, we can adopt the same configuration, and the Mac should also work fine. Enable “Send all traffic over VPN connection” How to solve this problem? Here are two options. The difference causes that the Windows clients may work fine, but Mac clients cannot access the remote network. Why is it like this? Actually, after the Windows clients are connected, all traffic will be forwarded to the VPN server by default while Mac clients will still forward Internet traffic to the local gateway. But you may find after connecting to the VPN server, the Windows clients are working well, but the Mac clients from Apple Inc. With L2TP over IPsec, the VPN client can securely access the remote network resources.

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