audio over vpn

chrisathome

Hi

Some weeks ago my xp based openvpn 2.2.2 server machine died and I had to reinstall the 2.2.2 server on a new box running win7 pro. I have limited network experience and struggled with win 7's security to re-establish the system, only just now having got a working tunnel from home using the existing keys and certs. Prior to the crash I had a number of individual clients able to log in simultaneously onto the network. Using Tightvnc they were able to go to specific machines and work happily. They were also able to listen, using their local windows media player, to windows media encoder generated live audio streams running on a couple of boxes.

While I can now TVNC to any machine on the remote network through the tunnel, I can't access the WME streams. Before, I merely had to run an instance of WMP pointing at a machine on the remote network, using the port that the encoder was set up to broadcast from, which was configured to allow clients to pull from the encoder.

Now when I try to set up WMP to connect to a stream at (eg) http://192.168.5.100:8080/ nothing happens. The encoder doesn't recognise the connection. As I haven't effectively changed the setup of openvpn I don't know what I'm missing.

I appreciate that this is probably not an openvpn issue but I'm looking for any help I can get!

Thanks

Christopher

Traffic

Do not use version 222 on windows .. unless you want to be vulnerable to heartbleed ..

Also, did you re-enable ip forwarding and nat/routing on your server ?

chrisathome

Thanks for the reminder about heartbleed! Will upgrade now I have it working. Finally figured it out late last night - the windows firewall on the server machine was blocking parts of wmp. The additional security on w7 over xp causes a lot of aggravation - mostly due to the lack of info from MS.

Christopher