MeshCentral and OPNsense

[Techzman5]

Has anyone have any issues with using OPNsense and Meshcentral and portforwarding with OPNsense?
I could not tell if my ISP is blocking those ports by default or not.


When I found out about Meshcentral, I was thrilled with the idea of using a different PC I have, to use MeshCentral so I can remotely assist my family members and friends, and remote into my family's PCs for PC maintenance and assistance.

I am a Meshcentral novice user trying to use Meshcentral on a different PC acting as my Server.

I already have my own domain (lets say: www.bob.com in this case) that I purchased from Cloudflare.
For cloudflare, I already made sure I created a DNS A record for my domain.
(I recently built my own OPNsense router from scratch recently thanks to https://homenetworkguy.com/)

I initially tried to use the Youtube tutorials from Yilan installing NodeJS and using command prompt and so on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsQbWZmRRAU, but halfway through it wasn't working and felt a bit daunting to setup that way so I downloaded the Windows MeshCentral Installer, https://meshcentral.com/downloads.html

For the Server mode I made sure to select WAN and not LAN.


Anyways, I was using a mix of:

• https://homenetworkguy.com/how-to/configure-wan-and-nat-port-forward-rules-in-opnsense/ to try to help me open ports 80 and 443 in OPNsense.
  

• https://docs.opnsense.org/manual/nat.html

• ChatGPT

• the PDF guide: https://meshcentral.com/docs/MeshCentral2InstallGuide.pdf
  

   

[jim1985]

This is the only port forward rule I remember setting up in OPNsense for MeshCentral:

Port 445 TCP/UDP


I am using an Apache reverse proxy as well though, so I can forward support.mydomain.co.uk to my MeshCentral Server VM