However, I can still ping the mac using its local IP address from other systems on the network, and I can connect to my mac using any other service. When my mac is connected to the VPN, no connections can be made with NoMachine at all, including from other systems on the local network! (Specifically, I have it create static routes for certain IP addresses that go through the local gateway rather than the VPN gateway.)įurther, I had said that other systems on my local network could connect to my mac using NoMachine and the NX protocol. The VPN configuration sets its gateway as the default gateway, with a few exceptions that I’ve set up, so all outgoing traffic is routed through the VPN. This means that my mac is the only one connected to the VPN. My mac is connecting to a privacy VPN service, so the VPN server is not running on my local network. Tom, you are correct, I do need to clarify! And I need to correct a few things I got wrong in my first post. However it did not fix the problem, and I still can’t connect to my Mac from outside my network when it’s connected to my VPN. I’ve confirmed that it’s using this binding address by checking the server logs. I searched around on the forums for solutions, and saw the idea of adding a line to server.cfg that forces NoMachine to only bind to my local IP address to avoid binding to the VPN IP address. However, when I try to connect to it from the Internet and my Mac is connected to the VPN, the connection times out client-side. When the Mac is not connected to my VPN, then NoMachine works fine there too, and I am able to connect to my Mac from a client outside of my local network. I want to be able to connect to my Mac from out in the Internet, so I have my router set up to forward port 4000 to my Mac. I know NoMachine is working, since if I try to connect to my Mac from another system on my local network, I’m able to do so just fine. This Mac is generally connected to a VPN via the OpenVPN protocol using the app Viscosity. I’m running NoMachine 8.2.3 on a macOS 10.14.6 host.

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