maikcat wrotesorry for hijacking...
Linux OpenVPN server (192.168.44.50)
............|-----------WinXP workstation (192.168.44.50)
both have 44.50 ip address???
Michael
no, I edited the above map.
After a ton of reading and testing, I found that if I specify a tun0 IP & subnet mask in tap-win32 tcp/ip settings I can successfully map to the WinXP client from the WinXP workstation using \\10.8.0.70\printer.
However, as soon as openVPN GUI is disconnected/reconnected, the tap-win32 tcp/ip manual IP settings get wiped out and "automatically detect settings" radio is selected.
So....I read about disabling windows netsh command by doing the following:
The --ifconfig option also calls the Windows "netsh" command, and some problems have been reported with this command on Win2K at lower service packet levels.
If you would like to use --dev tun but would rather set the TCP/IP properties manually rather than having OpenVPN try to do it automatically with netsh, follow these steps:
Specify --ifconfig with endpoint addresses.
Specify the --ifconfig-noexec option.
Manually set the network/subnet in the TCP/IP properties. You should use a "/30" subnet that encloses the addresses that were specified in the --ifconfig option. The netmask, therefore, will be 255.255.255.252.
questions with above steps:
1. I assume on the openvpn server for this client (labeled "WinXP client" above), I do this
ifconfig-push 10.8.0.2 10.8.0.1
2. set this in server.conf:
ifconfig-noexec
3. open tap-win32 tcp/ip properties and set ip of 10.8.0.2, netmask 255.255.255.252
The tcp/ip settings still get wiped out?
any help?
thanks!
