help setting up a VPN

marjenni

We have a LAN in our small office, and I want to be able to VPN into it, so I have to setup a VPN.

We have a Ubuntu server in the office that has a static public ip address, and I have installed OpenVPN on this machine. I have run through a few VPN tutorials, creating a vpn between my linux machine at home, and this server.

What I really want is my windows machine at home to appear as if it is on the office LAN. What is the simplest wat to get started with this?

Many thanks

Mark

maikcat

hi there,

What I really want is my windows machine at home to appear as if it is on the office LAN.

what exactly do you want?

if you want your home pc to get an ip from your lan range then bridging is for you..

if you simply want to access pcs&servers behind openvpn server then routing is ok...

i hope you understand the differences and pros/cons of both setups..

Regards

Michael.

marjenni

I think a site to site network connecting 2 lans is what I want, but then I also want to be able to vpn in from my laptop.

I have been working through the site-to-site guide in my openvpn book, I think that I more or less understand it, but on the client side, it complains about the line: site-to-site setupcompletinggroup.

Any ideas?

dev tun
proto udp
local (my local ip)
lport 1194
remote (the server ip)
rport 1194
secret secret.key 1
ifconfig 10.200.0.2 10.200.0.1
route 192.168.1.0 255.255.255.0
user nobody
site-to-site setupcompletinggroup
nobody
persist-tun
persist-key
keepalive 10 60
ping-timer-rem
verb 3
daemon
log-append /tmp/openvpn.log

Many thanks

Mark

maikcat

hi there,

but on the client side, it complains about the line: site-to-site setupcompletinggroup.

site-to-site directive?????

which book are you reading?

is this directive exists?

Michael.

marjenni

It is "OpenVPN 2 Cookbook' by Jan Just Keijser (kindle edition).

I have copied the settings directly from the book.

marjenni

Hi,
It was taken from "The OpenVPN2 cookbook"

best regards

Mark