Yulquen
I'm new to this software, but have played around with it a bit, following the howto on this site, and beeing able to successfully set up
a connection between a machine on my own private LAN (the machine acting as openVPN server) and my laptop (client), with the laptop accessing internet wireless through my cellphone mobile hotspot. I was able to ping the 10.8.0.x from both ends, and also could access a file share on the server by inserting the \\10.8.0.1 address in explorer on the client. I had to forward an udp port in my router, and also turning off the public firewall for it to work properly.
At work, we use an application that accesses an SQL server on our company LAN. This is fine for inhouse operations, but a problem for outside access. An easy way out could be to forward a port in the company router for outside access, but security wise thats not good.
The sql server runs on a brand new HP xeon machine running Windows Server 2012. We only need to access this spesific machine from the outside, and not other machines on our company LAN.
Do you know of any problems out of the ordinary when running openVPN on server grade operating systems, or should this be as easy as doing it on Win7 home computers?
I mentioned I had to remove the public firewall. Is this considered bad practise, even if the tun interface is the only one using it?
Thanks in advance for any feedback.
