[Solved] Server no longer working properly on windows server

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I have been running OpenVPN for about a year without any hiccups. Today, I get a call from a worker. She is able to connect to the server through OpenVPN but can not connect to remote desktop connection. We use server 2008 R2.

What worries me is that I have not changed anything from the default conf files on either the server or the client. It just decides to stop working properly.......Anyways, if I run ipconfig /all, I can see that the client is getting an ip (10.8.0.6) but it is lacking the default gateway ip (10.8.0.1)......I can access remote desktop connection from computers hardwired on the server's lan and it does connect...But for some reason, 10.8.0.1 is no longer associated with the openVPN connection...on remote clients...Just wondering what I can do from the client side? Or do I need to change something in the server conf file?

We have a static ip through dsl and our router shows this ip, i have port forwarding set for the openvpn connection to connect to the server's ip...it is 192.168.254.252

What am I missing?

Any help would be extremely appreciated, as everything has worked in the past without fail.

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All I did today was add a push for google's dns servers to the server conf file.....thats all.....anybody have any ideas?

Server conf. file

;local (my static ip address here)
port 1194
;proto tcp
proto udp
;dev tap
dev tun
;dev-node MyTap
ca ca.crt
cert server.crt
key server.key 
dh dh1024.pem
server 10.8.0.0 255.255.255.0
ifconfig-pool-persist ipp.txt
;server-bridge 10.8.0.4 255.255.255.0 10.8.0.50 10.8.0.100
;push "route 192.168.10.0 255.255.255.0"
;push "route 192.168.20.0 255.255.255.0"
;learn-address ./script
;push "redirect-gateway"
push "dhcp-option DNS 8.8.8.8"
push "dhcp-option DNS 8.8.4.4"
;client-to-client
;duplicate-cn

Client conf

client
;dev tap
dev tun
;dev-node MyTap
;proto tcp
proto udp
remote (my static ip add.) 1194
;remote my-server-2 1194
;remote-random
resolv-retry infinite
nobind
;user nobody
;group nobody
persist-key
persist-tun
;http-proxy-retry # retry on connection failures
;http-proxy [proxy server] [proxy port #]
;mute-replay-warnings
ca ca.crt
cert cert.crt
key key.key
ns-cert-type server
;tls-auth ta.key 1
;cipher x
comp-lzo
verb 3
;mute 20

Traffic

oldsoul84 wroteWhat worries me is that I have not changed anything from the default conf files

It is clear that somebody has changed something ...

oldsoul84 wrotethe server's ip...it is 192.168.254.252

Which you need to push to the client for them to connect to the server side desktops ..

See this Howto:
HOWTO: Expanding the scope of the VPN to include additional machines

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So in the server conf file I need to add:

push "route 192.168.254.0 255.255.255.0"

Do I need to include the parenthesis in the above statement?

Is there anything else that needs to be done?

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Props to Traffic!

You've made my day and I greatly appreciate your feedback. The Openvpn server is running properly again. We can remotely connect and login via rdp. Thank You.

Traffic

Thanks for letting us know your solution 8-)