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[Openvpn-users] OpenVPN and Windows network drive maps


  • Subject: [Openvpn-users] OpenVPN and Windows network drive maps
  • From: "Steve Poe" <steve.poe@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2007 12:05:12 -0800

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







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