I am an OpenVPN newbie and have tried searching for similar issues as well RTFM - without success so far.
My scenario is that I have a Windows 7 Pro machine that I connect to from various other machines in the same network (192.168.2.0, 255.255.255.0) using the Remote Desktop Protocol.
When connecting this Windows 7 PC to an external VPN using OpenVPN, it is dropping all RDP connections to it.
This is not entirely unexpected behaviour of course 😉 - after all, it is now routing all its incoming and outgoing traffic through the VPN.
What I want to achieve is for the Windows 7 machine to manage all incoming and outgoing connections to the local network (192.168.2.0, 255.255.255.0) without going through the VPN.
I've tried adding...
route 192.168.2.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 net_gateway
...to the bottom of my .ovpn configuration file without any success.
N.B. there are some other posts here about trying to connect to other computers in the local network via RDP
from the PC running OpenVPN and being connected to a VPN; this is the opposite. I want to connect
to the PC that is running OpenVPN from the local network via RDP while it is connected to a VPN.
Many thanks in advance for helping out a newbie!
