amanzin
Hi everyone,
This is my first time trying to set up a VPN, prompted by Cyberarms and Norton telling me that there were 180k+ brute force attempts on my office computer through RDP. My goal here is to be able to access a computer on my office network from my home laptop using RDP. At my office I have a Comcast business modem/wireless router, an ASUS RT-AC3100 router. I'm running Windows 10 pro on my home laptop. I've tried following instructions on openvpn.net, tried contacting their support, watched many youtube videos, but it is just not working for me.
I enabled VPN on the ASUS router, created a config file, sent it to my laptop. Installed openvpn connect on my laptop, loaded the config file. The farthest I've gotten is that it tried to connect, but it remains on the "waiting for VPN server" status fora while, then it times out.
On the Comcast router I have:
1) forwarded port 1194 (start and end)
Service type:TCP/UDP
Common service: other
Service name: openvpn
Server IP Address: x.x.x.x (I entered the WAN IP that the ASUS router says is assigned to it)
2) On its firewall, I selected "minimal" for IPv4 and "typical" for IPv6
One the ASUS router I have:
Enabled OpenVPN Server - 2048 bit
Created two usernames and passwords
Exported the OpenVPN config file
Enabled port forwarding: (service name Open VPN Server, port 1194, Internal IP address: 10.x.x.x (The IPv4 that the comcast router gave the ASUS router), protocol: UDP
There is a message that says in yellow text "The wireless router uses a private WAN IP address (192.168.x.x, 10.x.x.x, or 172.16.x.x). Please refer to the FAQ and set up the port forwarding." I followed the FAQ link and tried editing the config file's remote line, entering in the space "remote ___ 1194," my ASUS's WAN IP, the comcast modem/router's IPv4 WAN IP, and the comcast router's IPv4 WAN default gateway address. I imported three different versions of the config file, but none of these will work. Authentication fails if I use the WAN IP, and the connection times out if I use the gateway address.
Can anyone see something that I missed?
Thanks so much for any help.
