VPN to access media

[Krolken]

Hi

I'm getting my parents in law a R-Pi for christmas and planning on installing xbian on it since it is the one I use myself at home.
I have set up a vpn tunnel from a laptop to my server in another country where I have all my media so they can download it and then play it on Xbian. But I was wondering if there is a possibility to set up a VPN tunnel from the R-Pi to the server so that they can stream it directly from my server. Might be slow, but I have a pretty good uplink at home so it is worth a try.

I'm guessing I have to access the Linux that Xbian is running on, but I dont know how to do that.

I'm using NFS to share my files in the LAN at home.

// Krolken

[mk01]

yes, you can do that. your network traffic (to NFS) will be routed via VPN.

what kind of VPN it is OpenVPN or PPTP/L2TP ?

[Krolken]

I can use any VPN. Right now my VPN server is set up to PPTP and L2TP. I want to use L2PT so I have maximum security for the stream because it goes to another country.

We have handed out the christmas presents now, so I can begin to set the raspberry pi up.

So what do I have to do after I have installed Xbian on the sd card and configured it to access the wifi?

(Merry Christmas by the way )

[mk01]

feel free to follow any relevant how-to for debian (or even ubuntu).

maybe in the tutorial you setup your server part with is also a section for clients .