ok excellent, I hadn't even gotten to testing the vpn outside the network yet since I figured if the test didn't work, no point trying

Hi there trying to get openvpn running - have installed on hda, have forwarded external port 1194 on my router to 1194 on my hda as UDP, have checked vpn on hda (seems fine if I am correct) and still get the not enabled message from my dashboard. Why would this be? No modem after my router btw. [xxx...

OK odd issue now I run my HDA and two (three counting my partners ios box) pcs on the home network. From my desktop win7 PC I log on to http://hda/ and get my list of apps (dlna, shellinabox, owncloud6) and can use them per spec (log on to ssh and so on) From my laptop win8 I log on to http://hda/ a...

well I have to say I have given up trying to get it working, so if you come up with something I would be delighted
otherwise I will have to just content myself with the other features of my hda (cloud and vpn) which hopefully will be less troublesome children

hmm alright, good. here's the error_log from cups, however I'm not convinced I am any the wiser - there is definitely a file and a filter that it can't find, and the job requests are apparantly malformed somehow. Unfortunately I am unfamiliar with the printing systems in linux. Uhm. Not sure where t...

hi again well thanks for a useful post first of all. After a few false starts (didn't hit the share this printer tick box first time round and subsequently couldnt get the thing to let me remove the printer) I now have cups set up and have configured the printer. However I am not able to print anyth...

glad to hear it because my head is swimming....and thanks for that link - at a glance it looks pretty helpful.

well I am struggling with something like this. I have installed amahi and initialized it as standard. I've installed cups (as root yum -y install cups) and have vnc server running (as user account with admin privileges). I have nano and links installed also as root. I can connect to vnc from another...

alright fair enough - peace.

I'll look at it though at the moment I am still struggling with wrapping my head around it.

wireless connection is unofficially supported

dude no need to be snide. I solved it myself after all.