Hello everyone,
I recently purchased my first MikroTik router and since I was used to TP-Links that are much more beginner friendly, I got lost and frustrated more than once.
However, this forum has been great and I’ve learned a lot and I wanted to thank everyone who posted in this thread!
I can finally connect to my internal server, from all the PCs on the network, using my external IP.
Here is what I did, using winbox:
- Download winbox, if you already haven’t, connect using your router IP and password.
- Once inside, from the left side panel navigate to IP > Firewall > NAT and click the blue + sign.
3 . A new window, called New NAT Rule will open, the first tab you see is General. - In General tab, where it says Chain, click on the arrow to allow input, select srcnat from the drop-down menu.
- Just below you will see Src. Address and Dst. Address, click on the arrows to allow input and type 192.168.88.0/24 in both boxes. Assuming you kept your default router IP.
- Navigate to Protocol, click on the arrow to allow input and select tcp from the drop-down menu.
- Next navigate further down to Out. Interface List, click on the arrow to allow input and select all from the drop-down menu.
- Now, where we found the General tab, we have a few more, the one we need for the next step is called Action, click on it.
- Once inside the Action tab, look for Action, click on the arrow to allow input and from the drop down menu select masquerade.
- Click Apply and OK and you should be done.
Obviously, I barely know what I am doing and some things might be wrong/bad practice but this is how I fixed my issue, explained as simple as I can.