Michael Torrie wrote: > Dave Smith wrote: > >> I am the de facto sysadmin at my company of 6 people. We have several >> Windows users who want to be able to access our office network from home >> (Samba server, Subversion repository, some web apps, etc). I tried the >> Linksys RV042 with their pile-of-steaming-junk QuickVPN client, and it >> failed miserably. It killed our bandwidth and QuickVPN doesn't work on >> Windows 7 64-bit. >> >> So I want to install OpenVPN on one of our Suse boxes, forward the >> necessary traffic to it through our Comcast cable modem, and be happy. >> >> Has anyone set this up with Windows clients? Care to share what you did? >> Did you use the OpenVPN windows GUI, or Windows' built-in client? What >> tutorial did you follow to setup the server? >> > > I'll be happy to share my server configs with you if you want. I have > two configs running on different ports; one is TLS-based, and primarily > used to tie my family's wireless routers together, and the other is > password-based, used for laptops. > > On Windows I just install the OpenVPN win32 gui which wraps openvpn and > makes sure that the windows tuntap driver is installed. I then drop a > config file (I can share that with you as well) and my certificate > authority public certificate in the OpenVPN program folder. Then it's > just a right-click on a tray icon and select connect/disconnect. Works > quite nicely. Depending on how you set up the conf file on the client > (and how your server is set up) it will route all traffic through the > vpn, or just the nets behind your vpn. > > I'm not in a position to access my config files right this minute but I > can post them in a day or two.
Oh yes! That sounds perfect. I am more interested in the password-based laptop setup. --Dave /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
