Understanding OpenVPN

[flowersrj]

Hi,

Newbie here. Installed OV server on RaspberryPI (192.168.1.11) on my home network and the OV portable apps client on a USB drive accessed from work PC.

What I don't understand is--do I need to install anything on the PC that I wish to connect to which is 192.168.1.10?

Thanks, Rich

[mwandelaar]

Besides openvpn you need something like certificates or static keys and ofcourse some configfiles for that.

Have you read through the howto documents and allready tried to make a setup work?
If so, post your setup and logfiles here and we can have a look.

[flowersrj]

Yes. I hve defined all that. I just need to know if I need any kind of installation on the PC that I want to connect to or does OpenVPN just get me to the network where the OpenVPN server is running on?

Thanks, Rich

[mwandelaar]

OpenVPN is just the software which allows you to connect to the server, or being the server itself.
As it is the software, you need to configure the software to be one of the two, i.e. being a server of a client.

This is where the configfiles come from and that's what i asked you for:
Do you have any configfiles created for either the client or the server allready?

[flowersrj]

Just OpenVpn.conf

[flowersrj]

Hi,

I am now guessing that I need to install an OpenVPN client on any PC I wish to connect to so that it is part of the OPENVPN network. Otherwise, how would it know what 10.8.0.* IP address to assign to it so I could Remote Desktop to it.

Rich

[mwandelaar]

Have you read through the howto documents and allready tried to make a setup work?
If so, post your setup and logfiles here and we can have a look.

As written in the part creating client and server configfiles, you need to create configfiles for both, as the configfile defines the role: client or server.

[flowersrj]

I have a TUN setup working. Then I tried a TAP setup without success. So, it is back to TUN.