I Have SSL VPN configured. I can communicate with my network remotely i can connect to my NAS no problems however im unable to connect to my desktop (Win 11 Pro) shared folder which i can access one im connected to the same network. Any help will be appreciated. Thanks.
Disable that local firewall, please.
Two reasons come to my mind: local firewall on the win11 station is disabled?
Second: is the win11 station using the same default gateway as the NAS?
Please check.
Mit freundlichem Gruß, best regards from Germany,
Philipp Rusch
New Vision GmbH, GermanySophos Silver-Partner
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The answer to Both Questions is yes. Both devices are using the same gateway and the firewall is enabled on the PC.
Yes, it is as you suspected after disabling the firewall i was able to access the folders, however i don't want to leave this pc unprotected.
Do you have any ideas on where i could start in windows firewall to resolve this.
Any help will be appreciated
Usually the setting where it rejects traffic except for that in its own subnet - don't remember where that is.
Another option would be to do something similar to 'SNAT : "VPN Pool (SSL)" -> "Any" -> {server with folders} : from "Internal (Address)". See #5 in Rulz if you want to use this approach.
That said, I routinely disable the Windows firewalls on PCs protected by the UTM - I haven't seen that PC-based firewalls reject bad traffic that the UTM allowed in. Then again, I don't know how well those Win-11 firewalls today can protect PCs from attacks by malware on other internal devices.
Cheers - Bob
Thanks for all your help, i was able to resolve the issue by adding the VPN subnet in windows firewall inbound rules.
Thanks again.