pfisterfarm
I'm having a strange problem. I wanted to have access to my home PC from work. At first, I opened up RDC into my home network and was able to get in that way. But then I had second thoughts about having that port open, so I got OpenVPN installed at home on a different port from RDC (one that was already open outbound from my work network) and eventually got it working (had some problems getting it going... seems to have been some problem on my initial test machine, may have had to do with the anti-virus that was installed, a product called K7).
Now that I had things working, I shut off RDC to my home network. After that, I couldn't connect using OpenVPN any more. I'm sure I shut off the RDC port and nothing else. After adding it back in, I'm able to OpenVPN again.
Why would OpenVPN require RDC? Or is it doing something else over TCP port 3389?
maikcat
stupid question....
did you start openvpn by using its gui?
if yes , what happens to gui when you close/logoff....? gui closes too?
Michael.
pfisterfarm
I may have caused some confusion here... I haven't started the OpenVPN server inside of a remote desktop session. I started it as a service directly at the machine while home. The server has been running the whole time. Yes, I realize the server would go away if started during an RDC connection when I log out.
maikcat
ok then...
openvpn has no deps at all with rdp...
can you please post server logs?
Michael.
