Hi Guys, So ill take this from the top. i volunteered to try and link to different networks up as are business has acquired a new premises as are warehouse needed expanding.I enjoy a challenge and thought i would have a go at trying to connect the two network together. Sadly Not as simple as i first thought after trying many different thing i found openvpn access server. and thought this would be my answer ive been reading alot of the how to guides but not come to any success. So ive come for help. [b][size=150]Overall Network[/size][/b] [img]http://i.imgur.com/vn9GlRM.jpg[/img] [b][size=150]What im trying to do[/size][/b] Is link the laptop from the warehouse network on to the local network of the office. we use a program called sage to do the inventory of the business and the laptop need to be able to contact the "SCSSERVER" computer that has the files on it. currently have OpenVPN Access Server running on a Ubuntu 14.10 server connected to the switch don't know if that right. i do apologies if im making rookie mistakes here im learning as i go. any help would be most appropriated as well as if im doing thing wrong being pointed in the right direction. Thanks Anthony

I need to Help setting up Ethernet Bridge / Suggestions.

Ajking11

Hi Guys,

So ill take this from the top. i volunteered to try and link to different networks up as are business
has acquired a new premises as are warehouse needed expanding.I enjoy a challenge and thought i
would have a go at trying to connect the two network together. Sadly Not as simple as i first thought
after trying many different thing i found openvpn access server. and thought this would be my answer
ive been reading alot of the how to guides but not come to any success.

So ive come for help.

Overall Network

What im trying to do
Is link the laptop from the warehouse network on to the local network of the office.
we use a program called sage to do the inventory of the business and the laptop need to be able to contact the
"SCSSERVER" computer that has the files on it.

currently have OpenVPN Access Server running on a Ubuntu 14.10 server connected to the switch don't know if that right. i do
apologies if im making rookie mistakes here im learning as i go.

any help would be most appropriated as well as if im doing thing wrong being pointed in the right direction.

Thanks
Anthony

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OpenVPN comes in two flavours:

Access Server
Community Edition

If you are sure you prefer Access Server then you will have to raise a support ticket on the Access Server Support site.
Raise a support request here

Ajking11

Would you recommend another solution?

The Johan

Both Access Server and the community edition of OpenVPN can do bridging, but we advise against it. There's almost no valid reasons out there to run bridging. Sure, there's a handful of exceptions, but normally you'll want to do site-to-site using routing mode.

Here's a guide on how this is accomplished using OpenVPN Access Server. Note that you will still need to do some static routing in both networks, and that you'll need to use unique subnets (always a good thing in regards to networking). You will have better luck using a Linux machine as the VPN client gateway machine by the way. Windows client systems tend to be a little weird and need registry hacks to get them to cooperate in a site-to-site system.

https://docs.openvpn.net/how-to-tutorialsguides/virtual-platforms/site-to-site-layer-3-routin-using-openvpn-access-server/