PaulC2K

I think i've set things up correctly, i can ping my DuckDNS hostname successfully, and i can use it for DSM access, however i get rejected with port 1194. Should i be seeing something at this address, because the guide suggested attempting it to verify its succeeded. Same story when i tried with NoIP. I've watched a few YouTube tutorials and they all do something a little different. I suspect that i need OpenVPN connect in order to perhaps see that port, but the guide doesnt clarify anything about other devices, and despite following YT videos where they've imported the modified .ovpn file, its being rejected on my Surface tablet, and my main PC is just flat out refusing to install it which apparently they havent a scoobydoo why that is and its been that way for 6yrs+ In the Connect profile, i have: hostname.duckdns.org UN = my google login addr PW... i can only assume this is the huge 'token' on the Duck account page? Yet that fails. So im a little confused and ive been looking high & low for the past 4hrs trying to figure it out. Im pretty sure the DSM, Port Forwarding, Syn-Firewall side of things is correct (I hadnt added firewall until doing forwarding, and i can see port 5000 fine, as can an overseas mate). Im just a little lost as to whether i should be seeing something on port 1194 (i see nothing there via LAN or DDNS & port), and/or whether this Connect is the reason as it wasnt mentioned, but i see people doing it in videos... just racing through it without explaining what they're doing. I dont like asking for help if its perfectly reasonable that can figure it out for myself, but all the guides seems to have some form of hole thats not giving me a full picture of what im experiencing.