Derekflint
Hi,
I have a PC (PC_A, Windows) behind an enterprise firewall. The company provides a super old Cisco vpn (firewall embedded) to connect to their network.
My goal is to RDP from a laptop (PC_B, macOS) into PC_A, but at the moment I can only use a deprecated Cisco VPN client that does not work in macOS, and barely does in windows 10). So I am looking for an alternative solution.
After reading some documentation I thought I could build an OpenVPN server in a VPS, install the OpenVPN client in PC_A and PC_B, connect both to the OpenVPN server and enable the client-to-client flag. I could leave always PC_A connected to the OpenVPN server, and connect PC_B to the server whenever I want to RDP into PC_A.
So the question is, would I be able to RDP from PC_A to PC_B?. Does OpenVPN tunnel any connections between peers through the VPN connection itself like an ssh tunnel?
Apologies if this is a stupid question, but I don't even know if this is possible or not.
Thanks a lot!
kcastner
Hi Derekflint,
after client A and B are connected, you should get a virtual ip adress from openvpn server.
you should be able to connect to each other with the dropped ip from openvpn. both devices are connected to a "virtual" lan together. like both devices are on the same network.
at windows you can check the ip adress as following: open a console (cmd) and type -> ipconfig /all
try to find a ip adress wich could be dropped by openvpn. if you dont know, do it bevor openvpn is started and one time after you established the connection.
the ip adress wich got addes, should be your client ip adress you need to connect.
at unix based systems try: ifconfig otherwise try "ip addr sh"
as i sayed befor if you are not sure about your client ip, do is bevor you connect to vpn and do it once after you connected.
hope this will help you.
best regards
kcastner
