[Guide] WD My Cloud Open VPN Setup

CatWeazelCatWeazel
edited May 2015 in VPN Setup Support
1) Login to My Cloud with SSH

2) Make a temp working directory
      >> mkdir temp
      >> cd temp

3) Get the open vpn config files

4) Unzip the files
      >> unzip openvpn.zip

5) copy the following files to /etc/openvpn
      >> cp ca.cert crl.pem /etc/openvpn

6) Choose which host you want to use and copy it to /etc/openvpn as a conf file
      >> cp Netherlands.ovpn /etc/openvpn/Netherlands.conf

7)    >> cd /etc/openvpn

8)  Edit the conf file 
      >> nano Netherlands.conf
    change the line auth-user-pass to
 >>  auth-user-pass /etc/openvpn/password.txt
    save file and exit nano

9)  Create a password file with your details
      >> nano password.txt
 first line should be your PIA username (begins with a p)
 second line is your PIA password 
 save file and exit nano

10)  Get the VPN to start at boot time
           >> nano /etc/default/openvpn
       change the AUTOSTART line to your host file from step 6 and make sure you
       remove any # at the start of the line
  >> AUTOSTART="Netherlands"
save file and exit nano

11)  Reboot then check with 
       >> ifconfig
       >> route

Good luck   
 
 
  

Comments

  • cosmoxlcosmoxl
    what processor does that WD My Cloud have?
  • CatWeazelCatWeazel
    Processor       : ARMv7 Processor rev 1 (v7l)
    processor       : 0
    BogoMIPS        : 1292.69

    processor       : 1
    BogoMIPS        : 1292.69

    Features        : swp half thumb fastmult vfp edsp neon vfpv3 tls
    CPU implementer : 0x41
    CPU architecture: 7
    CPU variant     : 0x2
    CPU part        : 0xc09
    CPU revision    : 1

    Hardware        : Comcerto 2000 EVM
    Revision        : 0001
    Serial          : 0000000000000000
    WDMyCloudII:~# lscpu
    Architecture:          armv7l
    Byte Order:            Little Endian
    CPU(s):                2
    On-line CPU(s) list:   0,1
    Thread(s) per core:    1
    Core(s) per socket:    2
    Socket(s):             1

  • cosmoxlcosmoxl
    I did a quick search to see if that can be overclocked but didn't see anything.  can it be?  currently it's running at 650mhz?
  • CatWeazelCatWeazel
    I don't know its not something I've ever given any thought to.

    I have it running Transmission with a watch dir and flexget then feeding a couple of Raspberry PI's with XBMC / Kodi.

    Cheap and works well enough for my needs.
  • cosmoxlcosmoxl
    so at that clock speed what openvpn speed can you achieve?
  • CatWeazelCatWeazel
    edited May 2015
    Thing is I'm new to this whole VPN thing. Not long after I got it working on the WD My Coud I realised I could do it on my router for the whole network which is how I have it now.

    The following speed tests go through a PIA VPN on the router to the London host which is the same host configured on the My Cloud device so it may not be the best config.

    With VPN on the WD :
    100%[======================================>] 104,857,600  287K/s   in 5m 19s
    2015-05-26 16:12:15 (321 KB/s) - `100MB.zip' saved [104857600/104857600]

    Same test without VPN on WD My Cloud::
    100%[======================================>] 104,857,600 2.59M/s   in 38s
    2015-05-26 16:20:24 (2.64 MB/s) - `100MB.zip' saved [104857600/104857600]

    Hope that helps
  • sAmiZZlesAmiZZle
    Is this guide from CatWeazel supposed to make the WD My Cloud's IP address anonymous so that you can safely download torrents using transmission? 

    I followed the guide and after rebooting I checked my Public IP... It is still the same. How can I troubleshoot this? Is there a way to check that openvpn is running properly? Thanks.
  • sAmiZZlesAmiZZle
    Actually after a lot of trial and error i found out the problem was that the VPN doesn't like it when the host has a space in the name.

    In /etc/default/openvpn, I had AUTOSTART="AU Melbourne"

    I worked out you can test starting the openvpn service by running this command:
    $/etc/init.d/openvpn start

    When I did this it returned the following error:
    [FAIL] Starting virtual private network daemon:[....] No such VPN: AU ... failed!
    [FAIL] No such VPN: Melbourne ... failed!

    From this I could tell it was treating the host as if it was two separate VPN hosts (AU and Melbourne).

    Adding a backslash "\" after the AU portion of the AUTOSTART string did not work (apparently the VPN doesn't like it). 

    The fix was to remove the space in the "AU Melbourne.conf" file by doing the following from the /etc/openvpn directory:

    mv "AU Melbourne.conf" "AU-Melbourne.conf"

    Of course you have to reflect the name change in the  /etc/default/openvpn:
    AUTOSTART="AU-Melbourne" #(do not include the .conf extension here)
  • spock1984spock1984
    edited December 2015
    I managed to succesfully install openvpn, but unfortunatelly when openvpn is running, my Transmission client cannot connect to any tracker...

    I guess openvpn is running well, as route shows VPN IP (46.166.188.226)

    Can anyone help / advise?

    WDMyCloud:~# route
    Kernel IP routing table
    Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
    default         10.165.1.5      128.0.0.0       UG    0      0        0 tun0
    default         192.168.0.1     0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0 eth0
    10.165.1.1      10.165.1.5      255.255.255.255 UGH   0      0        0 tun0
    10.165.1.5      *               255.255.255.255 UH    0      0        0 tun0
    46.166.188.226  192.168.0.1     255.255.255.255 UGH   0      0        0 eth0
    128.0.0.0       10.165.1.5      128.0.0.0       UG    0      0        0 tun0
    link-local      *               255.255.0.0     U     1000   0        0 eth0
    192.168.0.0     *               255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 eth0

    What is also strange is that with openvpn running, I cannot ping anything:


    WDMyCloud:~# ping google.com
    ping: unknown host google.com
    WDMyCloud:~# ping www.google.com
    ping: unknown host www.google.com


  • CatWeazelCatWeazel
    try setting the dns servers to PIA's
  • spock1984spock1984
    How would I do that? I am not a debian expert.

    Don't I need to configure Netherlands.conf somehow?

    Did someone really had this working well?

    Thanks.
  • spock1984spock1984
    Ok, I did 2 things that I found on other posts:

    1) sudo nano /etc/dhcp/dhclient.conf

    Then change this line #prepend domain-name-servers 127.0.0.1; to prepend domain-name-servers 209.222.18.222, 209.222.18.218;

    2) sudo nano/etc/resolv.conf

    resolv.conf should contain 2 lines only:
    nameserver 209.222.18.222
    nameserver 209.222.18.218

    Original post I took this from is here, if anyone wants to read more:

    After doing this, I finally managed to get VPN working well :)

    I did not do a restart, hope it will not get changed back to my old DNS after restart.
  • ThatDudeThatDude
    Could someone post a procedure that works, what is provided is fairly thorough, but WD EX2 will not allow working with all those files that have spaces, tried to rename them but that failed as well. I am not a linux expert so I am sure it is my failing to understand how to work around this issue.
  • WadeOzWadeOz

    This is awesome, thankyou!

    Hoping someone can help though, got transmission and openvpn going, checked it worked by downloading the Tor ip torrent. Problem is, after a few hours, the internet on my WD My Cloud drops out... as in nothing, can't access even to check for firmware update from WD GUI, and obviously my torrents stopped in Transmission.

    Any idea how I fix/troubleshoot this??

  • VocalTerrorVocalTerror
    Getting this error when trying step #3:
    "ERROR: cannot verify www.privateinternetaccess.com's certificate, issued by '/C=US/O=Symantec Corporation/OU=Symantec Trust Network/CN=Symantec Class 3 Secure Server CA - G4':
      Unable to locally verify the issuer's authority.
    To connect to www.privateinternetaccess.com insecurely, use `--no-check-certificate'."
     
  • p7714993p7714993
    Getting this error when trying step #3:
    "ERROR: cannot verify www.privateinternetaccess.com's certificate, issued by '/C=US/O=Symantec Corporation/OU=Symantec Trust Network/CN=Symantec Class 3 Secure Server CA - G4':
      Unable to locally verify the issuer's authority.
    To connect to www.privateinternetaccess.com insecurely, use `--no-check-certificate'."
     
    This command will resolve that issue:
        >> wget https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/openvpn/openvpn.zip --no-check-certificate
  • p7714993p7714993
    At step#4, I am getting this error:
    "cp: target '/etc/openvpn' is not a directory"

    The directory /etc/openvpn does not exist on my system. I am running firmware 2.11.168. Is the openvpn directory located somewhere else?


  • ogge7ogge7
    Hi!
    I've followed this guide but I'm having issues with disconnects after about 3-4 minutes. 

    I'm getting these messages when triggering openvpn manually (the last messages indicate that I'm pressing ctrl+C, which I am not :-) )

    MyBookLive:/etc/openvpn# /usr/sbin/openvpn --verb 9 --config /etc/openvpn/Norway.conf --auth-user-pass /etc/openvpn/password.txt 
    Mon Feb 26 19:35:48 2018 OpenVPN 2.1.3 powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu [SSL] [LZO2] [EPOLL] [PKCS11] [MH] [PF_INET6] [eurephia] built on Oct 22 2010
    Mon Feb 26 19:35:48 2018 WARNING: file '/etc/openvpn/password.txt' is group or others accessible
    Mon Feb 26 19:35:48 2018 NOTE: OpenVPN 2.1 requires '--script-security 2' or higher to call user-defined scripts or executables
    Mon Feb 26 19:35:48 2018 LZO compression initialized
    Mon Feb 26 19:35:49 2018 RESOLVE: NOTE: no.privateinternetaccess.com resolves to 3 addresses
    Mon Feb 26 19:35:49 2018 UDPv4 link local: [undef]
    Mon Feb 26 19:35:49 2018 UDPv4 link remote: [AF_INET]82.102.27.74:1198
    Mon Feb 26 19:35:49 2018 WARNING: this configuration may cache passwords in memory -- use the auth-nocache option to prevent this
    Mon Feb 26 19:35:49 2018 [5a4ee39f896f71130d767b927b90f8ad] Peer Connection Initiated with [AF_INET]82.102.27.74:1198
    Mon Feb 26 19:35:52 2018 TUN/TAP device tun0 opened
    Mon Feb 26 19:35:52 2018 /sbin/ifconfig tun0 10.24.10.10 pointopoint 10.24.10.9 mtu 1500
    Mon Feb 26 19:35:52 2018 Initialization Sequence Completed
    Mon Feb 26 19:39:36 2018 event_wait : Interrupted system call (code=4)
    Mon Feb 26 19:39:36 2018 /sbin/ifconfig tun0 0.0.0.0
    Mon Feb 26 19:39:37 2018 SIGTERM[hard,] received, process exiting


    Firmware: 02.43.10-048
    Does anyone have any ideas what could be causing this? Thanks!
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