Hello. Does anyone know of an extension for chrome that allows me to connect to my home VPN? I would like to just open chrome activate it and surf my home network as if I was there (like TunnelBear, etc.).
There might be, but in that situation I’ve always just used SSH port tunneling:
I usually just recommend setting it up using a Windows built-in VPN connection.
All you do in that case is just click on your network icon, click connect, click ok, and you’re done. You can use L2TP over IPSEC or PPTP (no idea why you’d want to use PPTP though).
Or setup an OpenVPN server at home, let it accept connections over port 443 TCP and you’re good to go, it will bypass most firewall as port 443 TCP is also HTTPS and thus is not blocked, where L2TP/IPSec often is on hotel hotspots and such.
For setting up OpenVPN easily, i can recommend the appliance they offer: OpenVPN Access Server Virtual Appliance as it has a nice webinterface for managing settings/users.
On my laptop i have the Viscosity client to connect to the OpenVPN-server at home, it works very easily and worth the money in my opinion. Combined with having a DynDNS domainname at home it works 99% of the occasions i want to use it.
Alternatively you can run OpenVPN Server inside a Docker container, which is the route I took.