joemcbrien
Guys,
I work in a small business with an aging server. We are in outback Australia and are running off a 4G connection from the local tower (so we dont have a static ip address).
My server is using Windows Server R2008 (we are upgrading in 12 months...).
I am running a good quality laptop off anywhere in Australia.
I want to dial into my network, will OpenVPN work for me?
Joe
TinCanTech
Openvpn will work for you but your network may not ..
The Johan
Hi Joe. Yeah, how the network connection is made isn't really that important, as long as it has working TCP/IP and you can establish a connection with TCP and/or UDP then OpenVPN should work. Your situation might make things a bit complicated, but there may be ways around it. If for example dialing in from a laptop to the server that has no static IP is troublesome, you might use an inbetween system instead. For example, run a server on the Internet somewhere that has a static IP and run OpenVPN server on that. Then connect your Windows Server machine and your laptop both to that same OpenVPN server, and they can communicate through that. Since the connection is outgoing it means that having a static IP on the Windows Server side is not necessary.
ecrist
@novaflash is on the right track. This is what I would suggest. If that's not an option, you can run a dynamic DNS service on the Windows machine so that you can connect to the hostname. dyndns.org is one example of such service.
The Johan
High praise from @ecrist :o
