OpenVPN Server

liamcrane

liamcrane

liamcrane

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Hi All

Do any of you have an openvpn server setup in your home networks? Im trying to set one up and its proving to be a right pain! I have tried it on Ubuntu but the config seems very complicated to get up and running. Also tried to install the server on a windows 7 with no luck. Im kinda easy to which linux distro to use, but i have never really played around with it much before.

Would be really grateful for some advice if anyone has one of these up and running. Been looking at the openvpn access server instead as this appears to have some sort of gui which may make things a little easier.

Thanks guys
 
Thanks so much for the advice guys much appreciated. I will take a look at the access server for sure as i guess its always handy to have a gui. Do you still need to create certs and client config files for this though?

Will take a look at the script above as mentioned as well so thanks for that, if im honest no more than 2 clients will be connected anyway as its only going to be used while abroad and maybe in public wifi areas for me.

Never tried it on debian to be honest, like i say i pretty new when it comes to linux and i have only really looked at Ubuntu but willing to try other distro's to see what work for me. The one part i get a little confused with setting up is the server.conf as it wants to use the 10.0.0.1 network. Is there a reason for this? Would rather not have to go through setting up ip tables if thats whats needed in order to be able to connect to the server on my home network

Thanks again guys
 
Thanks so much for your help randal i'll give this a whirl in a mo. Just need to download debian, am i right in thinking that easy-rsa doesn't come with the newest versions of openvpn? think it may have to be installed separately
 
Thanks again for those links, can i not just do a simple apt-get install openvpn easy-rsa? Would try myself now but not in fromt of my linux pc :p
 
Excellent cheers for that Randal. Now to find the dir where they have decided to install the sample config files etc :p.

Once i have generated my keys etc am i going to need to grant myself permission to the client keys in order to be able to extract them for my windows laptop and iphone?
 
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Generated all my keys and extracted them all ok, just need some advice on setting up the server.conf and client.conf as well as setting up the IP Tables.

Thanks for the above KIA much appreciated
 
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