How To Set Up Synology Vpn

Before you start you need to go your VPN account credentials from the StrongVPN's Customer Area.
To log into the Client Area yous need to use your email with us as a login. The countersign is the one that yous've created when you commencement made an social club (if you haven't changed it since then, of course).
You tin can login from the StrongVPN website, there is a link at the elevation:

If that doesn't work, the straight link to the Customer Area login page is: https://intranet.strongvpn.com/services/intranet/

If y'all can not remember your password, please reset it using this link: https://intranet.strongvpn.com/services/intranet/password_reset/

After logging in hover over "VPN Accounts" at the height, then click the menu item "VPN Accounts Summary".

Click "Account Setup Instructions" nigh the PPTP/L2TP/SSTP account.

On this page you lot will see your account setup credentials: Server Address, Username, Password and IPSec Key (merely needed for L2TP connection).

Delight notice: The credentials on the screen above will non work — this is just an example.

We recommend to exit Account Setup Instructions window open, since you will need this information for setup.
Make sure that you have credentials at hand until you lot finish.

Footstep 1

Open Synology "Command Console".

Step 2

Go to "Network" (left-manus side panel).
Choose "Network Interface" tab, then "Create" > "Create VPN profile".

Step 3

Select "PPTP" as VPN connection method.
Click "Next".

Stride 4

"Profile name" can be any you similar, we recommend StrongVPN.
"Server accost" is your server address, i.e. the credential that you get from the Client Area at the beginning of this tutorial. If you are not sure where to get it, scroll up the page, you lot can discover the instructions there.
Your server is not "str-XXXXXX.reliablehosting.com", it is just an example.

Fill up the "Username" and "Password" fields, the credentials that you obtained before.
For manual setup username is non your email and the countersign is non your password for Customer Area.
Y'all can find these credentials in the Customer Area, same place where the server address is located.

Click "Next".

Stride 5

For "Authentication" select "MS CHAP v2" from the drop-down menu.
Choose "Maximum MPPE (128 bit)" for "Encryption".

Make sure that yous bank check these options: "Utilize default gateway on remote network" and "Reconnect when the VPN connectedness is lost".

Click on "Apply" button.

Step half-dozen

Now in the "Network Interface" you can see the VPN profile that you have created.
To establish the VPN connectedness click on the VPN profile and and so on "Connect" button.

Delight discover:

In case you are continued to the Synology remotely, your connexion to information technology may be lost when the VPN connection gets established. This is considering the Synology's IP address volition alter.
In this situation you can access your device using QuickConnect-URL or Dynamic DNS. These features can be establish in Command Console nether "QuickConnect" or "External Access/DDNS" respectively.
Some other manner is to exercise the PPTP setup instructions once more and in Stride five uncheck the option "Apply default gateway on remote network", but this will not redirect all the Synology'due south traffic to the VPN tunnel.

Step 7

Later on a while it will connect and show you lot "Connected" status.

Connecting the PPTP on Synology NAS

Go to Synology "Command panel" > "Network" > "Network Interface".
Select your VPN profile and click on "Connect" button.

Disconnecting the PPTP on Synology NAS

Go to Synology "Control console" > "Network" > "Network Interface".
Select your VPN profile and click on "Disconnect" push button.