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I have installed Open VPN Access server on a ESXI server.

To access it from outside , I have added port forwarding to CISCO router using following command.

#conf t
#ip nat inside source static tcp 10.201.102.163 443 <MY_EXTERNAL_IP> 443
#ip nat inside source static udp 10.201.102.163 443 <MY_EXTERNAL_IP> 443

There were no errors or any messages after executing these commands.

But when I navigate to https://<MY_EXTERNAL_IP>, I am not able to reach access server?

Edit Result of sh ip access-list

## are intentional 

Extended IP access list 100
    10 permit ip 10.##.102.0 0.0.0.255 any
    20 permit ip 10.##.103.0 0.0.0.255 any
Extended IP access list 101
    10 deny ip 10.##.103.0 0.0.0.255 10.##.102.0 0.0.0.255 (1495005761 matches)
    20 permit ip 10.##.103.0 0.0.0.255 any (50722431 matches)
Extended IP access list 102
    10 permit ip 10.1.45.0 0.0.0.255 any (1015320 matches)
    20 permit ip 10.1.40.0 0.0.0.255 any (41479 matches)
Extended IP access list 110
    10 permit ip 10.##.103.0 0.0.0.255 10.##.102.0 0.0.0.255 (1498725218 matches)
Extended IP access list 199
    10 permit tcp any host 1##.9.54.227 range 49000 49500 (12909 matches)

I am using Open VPN and able to access it internally. Now to access it from outside, I am trying to do a port forward on Cisco Configuration Professional Express.

I am logging into cisco console using Putty.

After refering to few posts , I came up with this command:

ip nat inside source static tcp 10.0.0.143 443 <EXTERNAL_IP> 443

But as soon as I execute this command, I am getting this error,

% Invalid input detected at '^' marker.

Error screen,

I have installed Open VPN on Esxi using this document.

The Open VPN installed on Esxi successfully and has an IP: 10.0.0.21 and running on port 943.

To access it from outside, I logged into my router and did a port-forward.

From: MY-PUBLIC-IP:943 to 10.0.0.21:943.

Now, when I navigate to https://MY-PUBLIC-IP:943, I am able to see my open VPN page and able to download Windows client.

Also able to connect to VPN when I connect from office as I am able to reach (10.0.0.21), open VPN Image.

But If I switch to my phone Wifi and try connecting ,I am still able to reach MY-PUBLIC-IP:943, but connection times out while authenticating .

I did similar setup for PiVPN on for my home and it works .

I have a ovpn file with following format.

client
dev tun
proto udp
remote MY_IP 1194
resolv-retry infinite
nobind
persist-key
persist-tun
mute-replay-warnings
ns-cert-type server
key-direction 1 
cipher AES-128-CBC
comp-lzo
verb 1
mute 20

-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
M---DeletedContent
+Jl7
-----END CERTIFICATE-----


-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
DeletedContentYsuN5d
-----END CERTIFICATE-----


-----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY-----
Proc-Type: 4,ENCRYPTED
DEK-Info: DES-EDE3-CBC,EB9C4DDDD26848F5

PDeletedContent
-----END RSA PRIVATE KEY-----


#
# 2048 bit OpenVPN static key
#
-----BEGIN OpenVPN Static key V1-----
DeletedContent
-----END OpenVPN Static key V1-----

When I am trying to open this with OVPN 2.4.4 getting following error:

Options error: Unrecognized option or missing or extra parameter(s) in C:\Users\Stevens\Desktop\user01.ovpn:17: ---BEGIN (2.4.4) Use --help for more information. Press any key to continue...

Line 17 is the 1st -----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----. What am I doing wrong??

I have installed Websphere application server which is using port 80 on my system.

I also neeeded SMTP , so installed IIS on WIN2008 Server . But getting following error:

The World Wide Web Publishing Service (WWW Service) did not register the URL prefix http://*:80/ for site 1. The site has been disabled. The data field contains the error number.

I have a Named Pipe and It Works Fine While I access it using a Client which runs on My System.

I get GLE 5 (Access denied) while I run the client from another system.

The original post is at stackoverflow

I have removed samba using :

apt-get --purge remove samba 

and then Manually removed the smb.conf using rm *.* after going to the Samba directory.

Now While I trying to install Samba again I am getting the following error:

Starting Samba daemons: nmbd/usr/sbin/nmbd: /usr/local/lib/libldap_r-2.4.so.2: no version information available (required by /usr/sbin/nmbd)
/usr/sbin/nmbd: /usr/local/lib/liblber-2.4.so.2: no version information available (required by /usr/sbin/nmbd)
 failed!

I am unable understand why this is happening. Please help

Edit:
After trying ps aux | grep samba getting the follwing response:

root     25793  0.0  0.0   3088   716 pts/0    R+   09:17   0:00 grep samba

Have no idea what to do with this?

Edit@Matthew

Now Have the follwoing error: Processing triggers for man-db ...

Setting up samba-common (2:3.2.5-4lenny11) ...
Not replacing deleted config file /etc/samba/smb.conf
chmod: cannot access `/etc/samba/smb.conf': No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing samba-common (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of samba:
 samba depends on samba-common (= 2:3.2.5-4lenny11); however:
  Package samba-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing samba (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
 samba-common
 samba
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

I have already removed smb.cnf file

Now I have got an internet connection with Static Ip.

I want to know How can I map my website to my Static IP(Received from ISP).

I know this is not a good Idea for Security and Performance issues, But just Wanted to know as I can set up a test Project.

Again, Can't I just by a domain name and map it to my Static Ip, instead of buying them from WebHosting Providers. Now I have bought the space from bizzhost and hosted my site by setting the Name Server.

Thanks, Subhen