Hi all,
I appologize in advance if I've posted in the wrong section of the forum, or if the solution is already somewhere on here.
I've had some assistance setting this up, but it's a configuration that those assisting me have not done before.
Basically I'm a Windows guy, I'm familiar with the command line back to the DOS days (I learned DOS as a young kid before Windows 3 even came out). While I have some basic Linux knowledge, I'm at a complete loss at this point on where to go, what to do, and any instructions I find are well beyond my level of understanding (except for the instructions for the Windows side).
I am in the process of moving a client of mine from a Windows XP environment to a cloud based virtual desktop environment.
Currently they have a CentOS 4.x server which acts as the Windows domain controller and hosts an XP VM and the server component for the software they use to manage their business.
All the other computers are XP and run Windows clients to access the server component of the application.
All printers are network printers with static IPs.
The application server is being migrated to a new CentOS 6.x server in the cloud.
The new system is Win2k8R2, standard RDP access for users to this server (it's virtualized), it has TSPrint from TerminalWorks to handle driverless printing. The client's application is running.
The catch is that all printing from the clients business application is handled by the Linux server component instead of the Windows client (as almost every other application does it). This complicates printing from a cloud based server to local network printers.
I've configured OpenVPN on the CentOS 6.x server as the OpenVPN server, and OpenVPN on one of the Windows XP systems as an OpenVPN client, I am able to connect to the server, but I need to be able to get the Linux server to be able to communicate with nodes (i.e. the printers) on the Windows network to enable printing from the Linux server to local network printers.
I'm not sure what information you need, I could send you my config files.
We based the configuration off the following instructions:
http://geek-kb.com/linux/install-and-configure-openvpn-centos-6-x/
The local LAN IP addresses are 192.168.212.0, local router is 192.168.212.1, Windows OpenVPN client is 192.168.212.210
The VPN server IP is 10.8.0.5, the Windows OpenVPN client is 10.8.0.6
I can ping the Windows client from the Linux server (connected via Putty using SSH).
Also the Windows client needs to be able to access the interner while connected to the VPN, but can not do so currently.
Unfortunatly I need this working ASAP as we are in the middle of the migration as we speak.
Thanks in advance for any and all help, it is most appreciated, especially if this can be resolved quickly.
Daniel
