Problems OpenVPN default Gateway Windows 7

sirsmokalot

Hello,

i have a problem setting up openvpn and im not sure wether to do with it. Google wasnt any help, and believe me, i googled a lot. So my final step is to ask in the community 🙂

I want to set up OpenVPN to be able to see my samba shares from everywhere. But i dont want the internet traffic from the server to be routed, the client should use his local internet connection to for example open up websites. From my understanding the problem with the Windows 7 Client is, that he automaticly changes the default gateway windows is using while the VPN connection is up. Is there an easy way to solve this Problem? As its an virtual device im not able to set the "use local gateway" option under IPv4 settings like i would do with a normal Windows VPN connection.

Everything is running fine, i just cant seem to get the Windows client to use the local gateway....Please help me. Thx 🙂

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sirsmokalot wroteFrom my understanding the problem with the Windows 7 Client is, that he automaticly changes the default gateway windows is using while the VPN connection is up.

OpenVPN does not change the default gateway .. it sets higher priority routes that emulate a new gateway.

sirsmokalot wroteI want to set up OpenVPN to be able to see my samba shares from everywhere. But i dont want the internet traffic from the server to be routed, the client should use his local internet connection to for example open up websites

Standard setup without --redirect-gateway option.

To access Windows shares:

net use z: //10.8.0.1/sharename

where 18.8.0.1 represents the IP of the machine you want to connect to.

Windows network browser will not work with this setup.

You can try --dev tap and --server-bridge and/or a Wins/Samba server but in my experience they are more trouble than they are worth. I run an FTP server on any windows machine I want to serve files and use the VPN encryption for protection.