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Attached you will find diagram of my home network + tracert. Please review before reading below, to help with context.

I have two routers. One has my NAS server and regular daily traffic. The second router is setup with NordVPN with killswitch. The second router has all traffic going through VPN.

Computer 1 is able to mount NAS server.

Computer 2 is able to ping the NAS server and I am able to access it using the IP address in Chrome. It takes me to the server GUI. However, I am unable to mount the drive to computer 2 in file explorer - it can't find the server.

What have I tried?

  1. Make sure its setup as a private network
  2. Make sure file sharing is turned on computer 2
  3. Tried turning off firewall at computer 2, router 1, and router 2
  4. Computer 2 is able to mount the NAS server if I am connected to router 1, but it does not mount when connected to router 2.

Network layout + Tracert

Destroy666
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Makavel1
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If your LAN diagram is true to form there's an easy solution, but this WILL degrade security. On router 1 - put the NAS server in the DMZ for all incoming connections. You should then be able to access the NAS from PC2 by using the IP address of the router 192.168.0.1 to access the NAS. If router 1 is connected to the internet this WILL give the internet access to the NAS; not a good answer but very workable.

This could also work - use a USB SSD/HDD plugged into the Router 1 & get router 1 to share access to this, ie use the router as your NAS.... Another solution: VPN's can run in two modes - Client to LAN, or client to single device - Serve the VPN at the NAS. On my router (Asus N66U) allowing access to the LAN was a simple tick-box in the config page. But to access the NAS on my PC from the internet I had to use the NAS IP address, not it's WINs name. Finally - apparently your router supports "virtual server", which could allow you to forward the NAS as a server towards the VPN connection, but for this you'll have to read the manual. This is a possibility.

Alan Shepherd
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