anthonyparker
Hello,
I'm new to OpenVPN and I would like to set up my own server. However, I'm not sure if OpenVPN can do what I'm trying to do. Let me explain.
As I understand, if you have two LANs in separate locations, say LAN A and LAN B, you can use OpenVPN to connect both so that users from A and B can interact as if they were on the same LAN.
What I want to do, is to (virtually) create a separate LAN, say LAN C, so that users connected to C via their OpenVPN client can interact with other users connected to C. The OpenVPN server would be running from inside A, but users connecting to C from B cannot otherwise access the resources of A (they can only connect to C and interact with other computers connected on C).
The reason I'm trying to do this is play LAN games from two different geographical locations, but I don't want to expose my own LAN (printers, file server, etc.) to the other participants. I know I can use Hamachi for that, but I like to try things with open source solutions from time to time 🙂 .
I'm sorry if what I'm trying to do is already described in detail in a tutorial somewhere; I've looked on google but could not find what I was looking for (maybe I was using the wrong keywords? please provide pointers to me in that case).
Thanks for your help!
