Just a heads up as I am an ex pat I was struggling to install iplayer etc even with a smart dns setting,
I purchased a vpn from vpn unlimited they were, maybe still offering.
"OH still available for 7 days from the post date $19 3 years VPN http://goo.gl/st407o " well less of that.
I am Unrooted so No VPN possible, Well if you are desperate I installed the vpn on my PC and used a great free app
http://virtualrouter.codeplex.com/
Set up a WiFi hotspot which shared the country selectable VPN. Shown above,, connected the firetv and guess what all was fine, I even measured 7mbs download speed (on pc) and video played fine on firetv
After all of that I found out my appstore was registered to the USA so that was one of the problems soon changed that in devices and settings on amazon.com, carried on and installed all the UK free apps I desired.
TV catchup is working on my PC so I am off to try the app on my firetv
The only requirement to watch out for is the black listeded ip adresses for updates may not be blocked yet, I am investigating. it should be possible as it uses open vpn as a core.
Enjoy
UPDATE Tvcatchup works fine abroad , just get the apk off aptoide
Another solution also is to setup a VPN Wifi Router in your house using a Raspberry PI.
I did that and I'm very happy.
I still need some tweaking but getting there.
Next step will be to build an iPhone application that can control it (restart, change country,...)
Let me know if you want a procedure, I can send you the one I follow. I'm also planning to do one myself with some changes.
The only thing is that you will need a VPN provider that is compatible with OpenVPN.
I got a ddwrt router costing me £10. Has VPN and smartdns built in. Works brilliantly.
Hi nufclad,can you tell me which router you are using,ive been recently looking into trying this myself
Thanks
Hi Si,
Sure, its the DIR-615.. I think most revisions now work too . Mines rivision d4.
Pick them up really cheaply. I got mine on Gumtree brand new boxed. But eBay its between £8-£15.
Really can't fault it.
Thanks nufclad,il keep an eye out
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Hey, I have been looking forward to the 2.1 update for our Heros because I thought it was going to finally give us simple VPN access... *to Cisco concentrators*. Unfortunately, it only gives us IPSec/L2TP PSK or CRT... whereas I need a pure IPSec client that supports Group Authentication in order to connect to my corporate VPN.
So, I, and I am sure many others, need to revert back to the Get-A-Robot-VPNC client to connect to our corporate networks, but apparently do not have a correct tun.ko module. Trying to insmod a tun.ko module, I get "invalid format" or "failed executable" - So, can someone provide a tun.ko that we can use, or explain how to get one installed in these new 2.1 ROMs?
I am currently using the ZenHero 2.1 ROM
Thanks! Once I get VPN access again, the Hero will really be something pretty damn awesome again.
Or, does anyone know of any VPN clients coming down the pipe for Android? or any other projects in development?
I heard Shew Soft was coming out with a mobile variant... not sure if it'll be on Android though..
I have no use for it or way to try it, but I did find vpn connections in the market when searching for something else and remembered this thread. It said on the comments though to go to the site for the latest version. http://code.google.com/p/get-a-robot-vpnc/
actually, a search for vpn in the market turned up a few options. Take a look, I don't know exactly what you need.
I have been trying multiple ways. I even tried the tun.ko. I have not been successful but I would like to hear if anyone is successful.
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actually, a search for vpn in the market turned up a few options. Take a look, I don't know exactly what you need.
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Unfortunately, none support, what I think to be the most popular VPN type, from a corporate stand-point: pure IPSec that supports Group Authentication. Most in the market are just for VPNC.
Thanks for your post though.
Yes the android app is lacking.
I have a Cisco concentrator working with MY phone. I just dumped all Group based auth. We wanted a device that would work with 99.999% of devices on the market and our little Asa-5505 does the trick.
You should be able to configure policies on the cisco to handle either clients, that is really your or your admins choice.
Otherwise the stock android vpn client MY only complaint is it will NOT let me vpn over mobile network.. only wifi. Kinda pointless if I have wifi I would use my laptop to vpn to work. WTF?
Sprint is the problem
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Yes the android app is lacking.
I have a Cisco concentrator working with MY phone. I just dumped all Group based auth. We wanted a device that would work with 99.999% of devices on the market and our little Asa-5505 does the trick.
You should be able to configure policies on the cisco to handle either clients, that is really your or your admins choice.
Otherwise the stock android vpn client MY only complaint is it will NOT let me vpn over mobile network.. only wifi. Kinda pointless if I have wifi I would use my laptop to vpn to work. WTF?
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I realize this post has been sitting here for a while, but I thought this might help some others who may run into similar issues. At my work, we have all Cisco equipment and have a Cisco ASA configured with PSK mobile VPN. We are having basically no luck getting in using Sprint-connected devices (Sprint EVO 4G) on anything but Wifi. I CAN, however, connect just fine on my Samsung Captivate over AT&T 3G signal using the same built-in android VPN client. We've gone the rounds with the Sprint Engineers on this and they have nothing they can pinpoint that is causing this outage. I would really like for either Cisco or Sprint to come up with a good explanation as it shouldn't matter if you're on Wifi or 3G, it should work either way. The point is that it works on AT&T for us, but not Sprint, as far as 3G/4G data connection is concerned.
Hey, I was hoping I could get some help with this. I must be doing something wrong because I've spent a ridiculous amount of time on this project and have nothing to show for it.
I want to run a mobile hotspot on my phone, but not nearly enough to justify paying Verizon an extra $30/month for tethering. I'd only use it a few times a month and wouldn't push a lot of data thru, plus I'm paying them for an "unlimited" data plan - I won't get into that, you know where I'm coming from. I know they probably won't do anything about it since I'm using it so little, but I want to add an extra layer of security via an SSH tunnel or a VPN. I'm sure they just have to run a very basic report on their system to catch somebody who's tethering, and who knows when some manager will tell them to run it on every user vs just the high bandwidth ones? They could force me onto a more expensive plan, disable my account, throttle my connection, or just block any port an Android phone doesn't normally use, and they could do all that automatically pretty easily. If all my tethering data is encrypted they'd have to do some actual work to prove I'm tethering and probably won't think it's worth their time.
I installed OpenSSH on my home PC, forwarded some ports, and put the SSHTunnel app on my phone and it works great. It seamlessly moves all traffic over my SSH tunnel, except for the mobile hotspot. Which was kind of the point of the whole exercise! I looked all over the place but could not find a way to resolve this.
Next I looked at setting up a VPN so I loaded TomatoVPN on my router. The default VPN (OpenVPN) option for that firmware is IPSec with a CA certificate, so I went about setting that up. Apparently the default Android VPN client doesn't work well with IPSec because I can't get it to work - it keeps prompting me for a username and password, but it won't accept my router's admin credentials. None of the tutorials mention that prompt and I can't get around it. I messed around with an IPSec PSK VPN but couldn't get Android to connect to that either.
I looked into PPTP a bit but they say it's not supported by Linksys or OpenWRT, and from my experience Tomato doesn't appear to work with it either. I was going to put a PPTP server on my PC but saw somewhere that many routers can't forward PPTP requests from a WAN into the LAN.
So I went back to the IPSec approach, figuring the problem is with the Android client. I tried putting OpenVPN on my phone, but got stuck where I have to register a tun.ko file using the terminal. I don't even know if I found the right tun.ko. Then I realized I was trying to install an app to configure an app that installs another app and maybe I wasn't going about this the right way.
Does anybody have any advice? How should I approach this?
Here's what I'm using
Phone: Rooted HTC Thunderbolt
Carrier: Verizon
Ugh, looks like Verizon is 1 step ahead of me:
jbenisek.wordpress.com/2010/10/05/android-2-1-and-2-2-vpn-pptp-over-verizon/
Well, that sucks.
I'm currently traveling in Morocco for work from the USA and I'm staying in a Novotel hotel.
The wireless in the lobby gives me this address -
http://81.192.155.178/MLCBB/ui/main.aspx?IsScrolling=no
but nothing happens... I tried the default browser and Dolphin and still nothing
my android phone works perfect and the ipads work
So far this is the first time that my tablet has let me down..
I am running Android Revolution Hd 2.2.1
Any suggestions?
I am also running adblock - I disabled it and restarted it but still nothing.. My phone has adblock and it works fine on the network.
I was just In vegas and I was able to access the hotel website (your talking about the thing that redirects you to"log in"right) if I remember correctly though, I had to use opera. I also stay at hotels once every few weeks for business and never have had issue to date.
Good luck
Sent from my Infuse... Love it!
Many hotel networks redirect you to their internal website to log in. Some browsers are not compatible with this system. Try Opera.
As an IT manager at a hotel that uses the same kind of authentication-ticketing system i must report that i came accross with similar problems with ipads and android 3 tablets.
The solution that i figured out (until the next update of ticketing system) is to manualy add mac addresses to permanent acces to our hotel network.
If your hotel has an IT dept ask them to add you too
Every night the Shield will lose its connection to the SMB shares that my home server is feeding media content to my Shield/Plex Server. I've used these same SMB shares on Kodi(XBMC) for years. They work, I verify that they are still working after Shield/Plex loses connectivity to them with other devices; all access the shares without issue.
A reboot will instantly reconnect the shield to the SMB shares without any configuration changes, only to be lost again the next day.
Any/all help greatly appreciated.
Create an account on geforce forums, send feedback from the shield's seetings, including your geforce forum nickname on it, and create a thread there to report this problem. This is probably a bug with the nvidia's smb client application specifically.
I've been working with an Nvidia rep via their nvidia.custhelp.com So far the rep has been pretty useless:
"This could be an issue related to the network configuration." Umm yeah, 13 other devices wired and wifi working flawlessly
"Unplug all the cables and keep the SHIELD ATV off for good 2-3 minutes. Plug the Power cable, Ethernet cable and the HDMI cable. See if the issue persists." I realize rep has a SOP checklist to go through... But it just exacerbates my frustration!
I'm considering just finding a way to auto-reboot nightly until a real fix has been released. That or just transfer my media to a large USB HDD, keep a mirror on server which will be an extra backup I guess.
I finally got another response from them. They re-asked me the same exact questions... So glad I asked for their assistance.
Did you ever figure this out? I am having the same problem.
No, I did not. Since the last update it happens less frequently, but it does still happen.
I'm building a new home server that I will be transferring my Plex server to once completed.
Hi there, I had the same problem with my Nvidia Shield TV, SMB didn't work propperly.
The solution that worked for me was:
In Windows I created a new local account. Then I shared the folders I wanted to share withe the new account. After that SMB (Samba) was working fine on the Shield (I had to enter the accountname and password of the new account in Kodi).
I have this problem as well with Synology NAS. Anyone else using Synology?
I have the same probleme but i find the answer. disconnect your server on remote access and never push claim server. My plex on my shield reconnect automatic.
I had similar issues and what helped for the last week (fingers crossed still) was (on my router):
- Wifi "Group Key Rotation Interval" set to 28800 (8 hours). Not sure if this is the main solution.
- "Force as Master Browser": Yes, this makes my router the netbios master browser (maintains list of network names), this might be the actual solution.
I have an asus router with merlin firmware
belledesire said:
I had similar issues and what helped for the last week (fingers crossed still) was (on my router):
- Wifi "Group Key Rotation Interval" set to 28800 (8 hours). Not sure if this is the main solution.
- "Force as Master Browser": Yes, this makes my router the netbios master browser (maintains list of network names), this might be the actual solution.
I have an asus router with merlin firmware
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Sorry to bump this thread, but I have the exact same issue.
Plex on my Shield 2017 Pro will lose the connection it seems to my Synology NAS after 12-16 hours it seems.
Since I also have an ASUS with Merlin firmware, I was curious if your fix helped?
Hi everybody, I have a similar problem with my new nvidia shield tv pro (2017).
I successfully connect to my Synology NAS (DS214play) media share and get all my movies in PMS library. But after reboot the Shield, the SMB share is gone!
I can't play any movie, before I manually reconnect to NAS.
Furthermore while plex can't play any movie (it says that the files are not available) other applications like KODI or Network Browser work perfectly, ie they are able to see the folder in to the NAS.
Any news!!!!
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Recently I requested assistance to NVIDIA Customer Care, and I show you their reply below:
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Hello Harish,
thank you too!
My NAS is connected by ethernet gigabit to the shield, and I have 2 HDD of 3Tb each connected as JBOD volume.
Best regards
Gianfranco
PS: if of interest I can act as betatester for larger disks, since I have ordered 2 HDD of 6Tb each for the Plex server on the new shield. After what you said, I’ll connect them has BASIC volume, do you agree?
Response By Email (Harish) (02/19/2017 10:41 AM)
Hello Gianfranco,
Thank you for the reply
This NAS is 8TB in size and it works on wireless technology, we recommend only maximum 4 TB HDD for this SHIELD TV and we have not tested wireless NAS device for the SHIELD and we cannot assure you that it will work, Please get in touch with us, if you need further assistance and I would be happy to help you
Best Regards,
Harish,
NVIDIA Customer Care
Customer By CSS Email (Gianfranco Camuncoli) (02/19/2017 10:16 AM)
Hello Harish,
the model is DS 214 play, you can see details below:
Synology DS 214 play
I can’t send a screen shot because today after a full reset the shield was definitively bricked.
I forget to tell you before that the shield it often freezed and that forced me to do a reset.
Best regards
Gianfranco
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Two things.
1. This is not happening to me since the 5.0 upgrade. Not sure if it is coincidence or not
2. Maybe more important, it is not happening since I reinstalled DDWRT on my router which performs a type of local dns, similar to WINS, but for all devices, windows computers, macs, androids, HDHomeRun, . So, when my Synology comes online as "SPACE", I can always "ping space" from any device and it "just works". It's kind of magic to me, as I used to build DNS forward and reverse services, DHCP servers, RAS gateways, RADIUS, and so on, etc. No idea how this works so well.
So, my R8000 router, (and my prior R7000) have these DDWRT settings
Use DNSMasq for DHCP
Use DNSMasq for DNS
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I think these are what makes everything work amazingly.
So, for everyone with a NAS, can you just ping by the machine name?
If not, I think you will have to set you DHCP to fix the IP for certain devices, at least the NAS.
Hey guys I can't seem to find an answer to what I am trying to accomplish.
Firstly I have an android phone (Nexus 6 rooted) that I use with an app called VPN hotspot. This lets me connect all my devices to the rooted phone while using a vpn to bypass geo restrictions. This is great for the most part but alot of buffering happens (not always but still annoying)
I pay for my own DNS service (unlocator) and I use that to bypass geo restrictions via phone. Unfortunately you cannot do that with the Chromecast because Google hardcore's the DNS into the firmware. That means when I try to use a UK app while abroad the Chromecast checks it's location and the casting wont work. Blocking routing addresses (8.8.8.8 & 8.8.4.4) allows me to achieve what I want. Unfortunately I can't find an app or anything that would allow me to do that on my rooted phone.
I used to have a router (was stolen) that could block Google's DNS adding static routing addresses to it. I wanted to know can an app do that via phone before I go out and purchase a new router.
My ideal situation would be to use my rooted phone as a little wireless router, have an app block those addresses/DNS, run VPN hotspot app from here, connect my Chromecast and daily driver phone to the rooted phone and be able to cast like I did with the router. If anyone has any ideas or apps that work for this type of setup can you please let me know. I know I can go out and buy a new router but I see the potential in using my old phone as a router and thought maybe it is possible.
Thank you guys.
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