VMware View 4.5 using OpenVPN

[Gabrie]

Sorry if this question has been posted already, but somehow I can't seem to search on "vmware" or "vmware view" because that is too short.

For my homelab I have a View 4.5 environment running for some while now without problems. Since my ADSL router can only open some ports, PCoIP was not an option, so I connected to my View Connection server over the internet over https, made a View RDP connection and all was fine.

Last week someone pointed me to OpenVPN SSL appliance and I decided to give it a try. Very easy to setup and was running very quick. On my router I opened: tcp 443 / udp 1194 and redirected them to the View Connection server.

What works:
- I can setup a VPN connection
- in the
- once the VPN is setup I can ping internal addresses using internal FQDN, shortnames and IP address
- Using mstsc I can setup an RDP session to my domain controller and all other servers including the view connection server.

What doesn't work is making a View connection:
- I start the View Client
- I enter the internal IP of the View Connection server in the connection settings box
- Then I see it making a connection and quickly prompt me for userid / password
- after entering the credentials, I briefly see the status changing to "authenticating" and then it dies
- I never get the box that shows the available desktop pools and it just hangs forever.

I have no VLANs, all is one flat network. Only the VPN network, created by the OpenVPN appliance is in the 5.5.x.x range.

Any tips?
Gabrie

[maikcat]

hi there,

>On my router I opened: tcp 443 / udp 1194 and redirected them to the View Connection server.
your openvpn setup uses tcp or udp?

if you try to connect to your vmview from a different ip subnet (using some type of routing ,fe a pc with 2 interfaces with ip forward enabled) is it works?

cheers,

michael.

[Gabrie]

Turned out to be a setting inside the View server. It was still listening to outside FQDN

See -> http://yfrog.com/gz8mvpcj

Case closed