I'm running openvpn on a CentOS-7 home server. This works fine with my Fedora-20 laptops. But now I'm trying to establish connection from a Windows 7 laptop - actually the same laptop but dual-booted into Windows.
I am not at all familiar with Windows, which I rarely use. (I'm carrying out this exercise to help my wife. If anyone is interested I'll explain why, but I don't think it is relevant to my query.) 1) Do I actually need to install any software on this laptop? As far as I can see, Windows 7 has built-in VPN client software. Or is that nonsense? I read in <http://windows.microsoft.com/en-ie/windows/ set-workplace-remote-connection-vpn#1TC=windows-7> -------------------------- Go to Control Panel=>Network=>Network and Sharing Center, click Set up a connection or network, and then click Connect to a workplace. -------------------------- I'm following this to try to connect to my openvpn server, but after entering my usernamd and password, and the openvpn IP address of my server, 192.168.6.10, and clicking Connect, I get Error 800: The remote device or resource won't accept the connection. When I set up openpn on this laptop under Fedora, I copied the key I had created for the laptop on the openvpn server to /etc/openvpn/keys . But I was not asked to do anything like this under Windows, and I don't know where I would put the key if I did copy it over. (I hope I could use the same key as under Fedora?) Incidentally, I haven't opened any new ports for this exercise on laptop or server. UDP port 1194 is open on the server (in both directions). I stopped the Windows Firewall (temporarily) during the exercise. 2) Possible a little OT, but is there a simple way of testing if a VPN connection has been established under Windows? Under Fedora I see the tun0 interface when I give the ifconfig command. Should I see the same thing with ipconfig under Windows? Or is there another simple way under Windows to test if a VPN connection has been established? (This is really for my wife, who is in another country at the moment, who only tests the connection with Remote Desktop - so the problem could lie in that app, especially as she gets no warning that anything is wrong when opening the VPN connection - she is only told when starting Remote Desktop that there is a fault at the server end.) Any advice or suggestions gratefully received. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Slashdot TV. Video for Nerds. Stuff that matters. http://tv.slashdot.org/ _______________________________________________ Openvpn-users mailing list Openvpn-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openvpn-users
