Very basic question on samba from a new user

[fracta]

So I have my server up on my home lan. It is running on my pc and I can connect to it from my work pc. Now I want to access my samba shares.

Home router: 192.168.1.1
My pc: 192.168.1.10, linux mint, samba already configured
vpnserver on my pc: 10.8.0.1
client (me at work): lan ip 10.1.1.16, openvpn client ip 10.8.0.6, windows xp

I use putty to connect to my home pc so I can change settings etc.
I can ping server from client and vice-versa.
Now I need to figure out how to access my samba shares.
I am using a routed vpn. no firewalls on at the moment. all ports configured correctly.
vpn server is using udp, port 1194. I configured everything via terminal, and installed openvpn using the ubuntu repositories.
I followed the instructions and made keys and transferred them to the pc here.
I run openvpn client by rightclicking on the client.ovpn conf file.

My end goal is to be able to give people access to my shares anywhere.
Thanks!

p.s. Also, now instead of using my routers ip to connect to my pc via putty, I can use 10.8.0.1 so server and client are definately working. Its just the next step I'm having trouble with.

[Mimiko]

Please refer to samba configuration to find out how to configure access from different IP pools.

[janjust]

does

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start \\10.8.0.1

on the Windows client do anything?

My end goal is to be able to give people access to my shares anywhere.
Thanks!

why on earth would you want to do that