Openvpn Virtual Appliance setup and network access

[raymondpotgieter]

Hi all, I am new here and I am trying out the OpenVpn Virtual Appliance. I have installed the Appliance on a VMware ESXi 5.1 server and I am able to do the following.

1) access the openvpn servers web address from outside my network. I can access the Admin and user login options.
2) I can login as a user to the openvpn server and download and install the client side application on windows 8.
3) I can connect my Windows 8 openvpn client to the openvpn server.

My question is: I have used the admin web gui to configured the client user to have IP 192.168.1.212 when it connects. My openvpn server has the ip address 192.168.1.211 When I connect the client on windows 8 to the openvpn server I connect without any problem and my client reports that the ip address 192.168.1.212 was assigned.

I then open the command prompt on windows 8 and i try and ping any pc inside the network and i do not get any ping return. Is there any additional setup that needs to be done on the Openvpn Appliance to get the ping to work? I have gone through the menu options and also added the option to (make subnets available 192.168.1.0/24 and i can not ping any ip's inside the network. Any pointers to get the appliance configured? Also, is there anything that needs to be be done to the pc, I am trying to ping before this will work?

My internal network is all static IP's. All windowsXP PC's have ip address 192.168.1.x
My openvpn appliance has Ip 192.168.1.211 and when I connect from outside my network I get a client assigned openvpn Ip 192.168.1.212

The appliance web admin GUI is great but I must be missing something...