PlayHide VPN

Build with Autoit & host in EU

PlayHide VPN is an open source alternative to VPN tunnel services like Hamachi and Tunngle. It enables you to play LAN games online with your firends.

Client

Network Browser / Scanner

Why PlayHide?

No ads
No logging
No spyware
No account or registration required
Automatic updates
One click to connect
No port forwarding needed (as client)
Switch between other servers / locations
DNS hostname support with domain suffix (.vpn)
Completely open source including OpenVPN

Features

Play your games in LAN mode with your friends
Share files over LAN
Host your games, webservers and other services over a VPN*
Create your own private VPN server and network

*Only Client to Client / no Traffic Gateway

Note: PlayHide does not enable you to play pirated games online. It only enables you to play your games in LAN mode over the Internet.

Planned features

Messenging / Chats*

*Planned freatures may or may not be added

Supports

Windows 7 / 8 / 8.1 / 10 +
Linux (beta build)

Installation

Download and extract PlayHide in your desired directory
Run PlayHide.exe as admin and install
Setup will now install the Tap network driver and create a shortcut on your desktop*
Open PlayHide and click Connect to join a VPN network
- You can choose your desired server in the servers menu
- You can see all connected clients in the network menu

*PlayHide needs the Tap network driver, otherwise it will not work

Running PlayHide as a server

Server:

Open up Settings.ini and change ServerMode=0 to 1
Forward port 1400 as UDP in your router*
- You can change the port in the Settings.ini
- Make sure your firewall and anti virus are not blocking the port
Start PlayHide
- The Server is now running. Keep in mind: you don't need to run a client on this machine to be in the VPN since you are the VPN

Notes: You might want to set up a DynDNS if you don't want to change the IP address in the clients with every IP change.

Client:

Open up server_custom.ini_example
Configure it with your Domain/DynDNS/IP and port
- If you are running your own OpenVPN certificates, make sure to add them in the config
Copy your configuration into the server.ini
Start PlayHide, select your Server and hit Connect

*Also make sure you have a public ip address and not a private. You can only forward ports on public addresses. To check if you have a public ip address, please refer to this post: https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/difference-between-private-and-public-ip-addresses/

Deinstalling PlayHide

Open up your PlayHide directory
Navigate to /driver and your corresponding Windows version
Run Uninstall_Adapter.cmd as administrator
- If you blocked SMB, go to /tools and run Unblock_SMB.cmd as admin.
Delete everything else

Having Issues?

Make sure your 3rd party firewall get access to Port 1400 as UDP
The metric must be 1 on the Tap interface. This is normally set by the installer script
Having multiple network interfaces installed can create driver issues. Please check your device manager for issues, if you don's see the PlayHide VPN adapter under network adapters
Make sure only one ethernet & no other VPN client are running (Metric conflict)
The connection limit per server currently is 254 clients
Other issues? - Contact me on Discord

Known Issues

Linux client install and run script is not formatted in the right way
Linux client uses tap3 as the standard interface. It does not look if its available or look for other interfaces
Having multiple VPN interfaces seem to create driver issues. Disabling other VPN network interfaces in the device manager fixes that
The Tap driver uninstaller seems to fail sometimes. Make sure you run it as administrator. If this does not work, deinstall the driver from the device manager

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