First I am able to use simple port forwarding on my router to access each IP cam individually. This is an unsecure method and is exactly the solution I a trying to get away from.
I am a Linux professional. I can handle my own on the Ubuntu side. I am not so much technically savvy on the Android side. I've spent a good amount of time trying various methods mentioned below. The primary problem is that I just don't have beaucoup amount of time debugging to get this to work. Hence my post.
I am looking for the simplest solution to achieve my requirement. I want to securely access multiple services from my Android phone over 4G/3G on my natted home network using my Ubuntu server as the gateway. When i I say securely I mean, using an encrypted protocol to connect to my Ubuntu server, using multiple levels of authentication reaching my final end point application such as my IP webcam.
My phone is a HTC One M8 running Android 4.4.2 rooted using Weaksauce. The server on my internal network is Ubuntu 14.04.
I've unsuccessfully tried using Openvpn v2.3.2 on ubuntu and OpenVPN on my Android. This method and the other listed below I've spent hours trying get it to work. Way too many permutations of configuration and application choices to even attempt to list hear.
I've tried PPTP v1.3.4 on Ubuntu with the Android VPN client unsuccessfully
Again I am looking for the quickest way for my requirements to be met. I am open to the above methods but thinking below is the way to go.
The solution I am leaning towards is using ProxyDroid and SSH Autotunnel on my Android to port forward port 3128 to reach squid v3.3.8 on my Ubuntu.
The current problem I am running into is that SSH Autotunnel complains that it cannot create the port forward because port 3128 is already opened by squid. I've used this solution years ago using Putty on Windows and squid on my Linux system. Technically I am doing the same thing with SSH Autotunnel so I do not understand why I am getting this error this time.
I really appreciate anybody who has a few minutes to help me get up and running.
--Thanks, Chris