stevenhurwitt
I've been trying to set up OpenVPN to connect to my local file shares and ssh into local machines (desktop, raspberry pi, jetson nano) when i'm away from home. From what I've read it should be as simple as setting up an OpenVPN access server on my desktop served thru my (static) public ip. However I can only get the access server to work using my private ip, which isn't very useful since I can only access that on-network...
I just set up an OpenVPN server on an AWS EC2 instance and am hoping I can at least hack together a way to ssh tunnel from my laptop into my desktop or other devices when I'm on a different network or in a different state, etc. Would I just need to port forward and ssh into my public ip? i'm a little confused about how to map that to the right local machine I want.
Anyways I feel like I'm getting closer to working this out but there are a few points above I'm confused about. Any help or clarification would be appreciated!
Essentially, this is what I wanna do:
laptop ------- | AWS EC2 openvpn |-----------| local network |
Edit: I've done some more research and I opened some ports on my local machines, I believe I want to set up the AWS EC2 instance as a "jump server" to forward traffic when I'm off network?
