A_Pickle
Hello, all.
So this office has what they call the "Share" folder, into which literally everything goes. They want to be able to access those shares remotely, securely, reasonably quickly, and most of all reliably. I figure, how hard could it be, they're overwhelmingly office files -- .docx/.xlsx/.pdf etc. They don't exactly need a gigabit connection for this.
So I perused the HOWTO, and in a language I seem to understand, it said that Windows shares would be most easily ferried through the internet via a TAP/Bridged network, instead of a TUN/Routed network. I tried that. The trouble is, the TAP/Ethernet network completely falls off the face of the internet when I bridge the connections. So I tried a TUN/Routed network just to see if I could get a connection working, and I could. But again, once I bridged the network, I could browse the internet with Firefox, much less ping external IP addresses. The trouble is, the Server from which OpenVPN is hosted from needs the ability to both host the VPN server AND be used by a user at the same time. Would I need another NIC to do this, or what?
