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I've received many replies, so thank you all. The basic message I've been getting however is that Bonjour / multicasting cannot be routed over a VPN? Or, in other words, iTunes sharing over the Internet is impossible. Drat. Out of curiosity, what exactly does a VPN do? Because I thought it made it seem as though many computers in distant places were all on the same local network. However, if this were the case, why wouldn't network services work, such as iTunes sharing? The explanation I'm leaning towards now is this: a VPN gives each computer a special IP address, and if you connect to a remote computer using that specified IP address, all traffic between you and that computer will be encrypted. And you don't have to worry about port forwarding like you have to with ssh. Is that the general gist of it? And, since you can't tell iTunes the specific IP address of the computer you want to share with, iTunes sharing doesn't work. Kind of a non-technical description, but what do you think? *sigh* why do VPNs have to be so complicated? ;-P ______________________ OpenVPN mailing lists https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openvpn-users |