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[mailto:openvpn-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Steve Poe
Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2007
1:05 PM
To: openvpn-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [Openvpn-users] OpenVPN
and Windows network drive maps
I am a newbie in VPNs and
very basic understanding of networks, I bought the OpenVPN book,
Building and Integrating Virtual Private Networks by Markus Feilner, but I am
still stuck in a
loop somewhere.
I work for an animal hospital. The doctors want to be able to connect to the
internal network from
home (i.e. access to network drive mounts and run their veterinary application)
just as if they had their
computer in the office.
Being the "guinea pig" in this situation, I can connect to our VPN
server. I can ping the IP of the network device
tun0 at 10.8.0.1 and I can ping the IP of the
network device eth0 at 10.0.0.40 but
I cannot ping/access any other
machine in the network via the VPN.
Client Setup:
OpenVPN 2.1RC
Windows XP Pro
runing as a routed tunnel
VPN Server Setup:
OpenVPN 2.0.7
Gentoo Linux
running as a routed tunnel
single NIC
I have set my verbose to "12" but I was not seeing any obvious
messages. I have iptables set to accept and forward packets between
eth0 and tun0. IP forwarding is turned on.
When I try to run the veterinary application, which uses a telnet session in
our network or map a network drive (using Samba) on a another
machine, I cannot see it. My thinking is if I cannot ping it, drive mapping
isn't going to matter . When I connect to the OpenVPN server itself,
I can ping all the machines in my network, so I am thinking have a routing problem,
but I am not sure what direction to look in next.
Thanks.
Steve