Cathy

Trying to debug the problem, I deleted an extra private (home) network and an unknown network (maybe Kasperkey’s?). Then I reinstalled Kaspersky VPN and I was able to send the WAKE UP msg to my NAS. So problem solved. Thank you !

What quit working is a capability to power up my NAS remotely by sending a wake up msg to the MAC address of my NAS (via a mouse click). Maybe there is a handshake from the NAS back to the pc and Kasp VPN won’t let that get thru ???? I played with the settings for the KASP VPN on my pc and nothing seemed to help until I turned the VPN off (the initial setting for on/off). From your response it sounds like other devices are not aware of a VPN unless data is coming into the PC? (I have NOT yet installed a VPN on my NAS). My NAS is connected on my local network, ie. local IP address (192.xxx.w.yy) I thought I could set the VPN to ignore my NAS by adding it’s IP address as a website and telling the VPN to ignore it. Kasp VPN displayed the NAS IP address as a 1.0.0.xx address. Once the NAS powered up, I turned the KASP VPN back on and I think everything works ok.

Wondering how to use KSC VPN on my windows machine and a client on a QNAP NAS that has a special Linux OS. The QNAP uses OpenVPN. I’m a beginner at NAS and VPNs.