Thanks for the confirmation about the WINS!
However, there is still something wrong as I'm not able to reach the server's shares...
When I map a drive to the server machine directly from the same LAN it works fine and asks for credentials etc.
Via the VPN however I get this response:
C:\Windows\System32>net use x: \\10.8.0.1\Share
System error 53 has occurred.
The network path was not found.
Where 10.8.0.1 is the IP of the OpenVPN server. (Is this the correct way to access the shares?)
I have the impression that I still need some additional configuration to be able to access windows file shares on the machine that runs the VPN server?
Or not use the OpenVPN server's IP but instead add a route to the OpenVPN server machine host itself?
For reference, here is my server config file:
port 1194
proto udp
dev tun
ca "C:\\Program Files\\OpenVPN\\easy-rsa\\keys\\ca.crt"
cert "C:\\Program Files\\OpenVPN\\easy-rsa\\keys\\server.crt"
key "C:\\Program Files\\OpenVPN\\easy-rsa\\keys\\server.key"
dh "C:\\Program Files\\OpenVPN\\easy-rsa\\keys\\dh1024.pem"
server 10.8.0.0 255.255.255.0
ifconfig-pool-persist ipp.txt
#apparently I need this route to be able to ping between client and server
push "route-metric 512"
push "route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0"
keepalive 10 120
comp-lzo
max-clients 20
persist-key
persist-tun
status openvpn-status.log
verb 3
