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Ergec
Asked: 2011-06-28 01:57:02 +0800 CST

Accessing to shared folders with OpenVPN

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This is my first attempt to configure a vpn so I have very little knowledge about this.

Network where centos server is having local IPs 192.168.123.*

Network where windows machine is having local IPs 192.168.1.*

I installed and configured my openpvn server on centos 5 and client on a windows machine. Generated all keys, certificates e.t.c and transferred them to client and I'm able to connect to server. Below there is a screenshot of the client log.

Also on server side I can also see incoming packets with this command

tcpdump -n port 1723

So I assume I did most of the things correct.

But still when I try to open shared folders using \\192.168.123.33 or \\network-name I can't access folders

openvpn client

Edit:

And this is what I want to do and I'm not quite sure if I configured client and server config files correctly (routings or other stuff which I have no idea about).

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Could you please guide me about config files and how should I do everything else.

vpn openvpn open

3 Answers

  1. Do you can pinging 192.168.123.33?
    Is sharing port(445) open on 192.168.123.33? Dan you connect to sharing port on 192.168.123.33 with command: 

    telnet 192.168.123.33 445

    Edit:

    what is OpenVPN server IP Configuration(localip and remoteip range)?

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  2. Best Answer

    Problem was because I was using certificates for both server and client generated by

    ./build-key-server

    I missed that I have to use different certificates for clients generated using this command

    ./build-key

    After I generated proper certificates and put to clients config folder, it connected.

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  3. Do you have a route on the 192.168.1.0 network advertising the route back to the 192.168.123.0 network? Without it, the network traffic will be routed out the default gateway.

    You can test this from a particular host by typing the following in a command window:

    route ADD 192.168.123.0 MASK 255.255.255.0  192.168.0.999 <-LAN IP of CentOS box

    This will temporarily add a route. You can then try pinging that host from the VPN client.

    Also, ip forwarding needs to be enabled on the CentOS box - http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/IPForwarding

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