Server VPN Help

[ShivP]

Hello all

Had a nightmare this morning. My dad has a small business - 2 people working from home, they have taken their desktop machines. They were linked into the Server 2012 R2 machine in the office.

The PCs were using OpenVPN GUI to connect to the Asus DSL-AC52U router. It is slow, however it is the only way I know how to do VPNs and was working OK for the excel sheets etc that they use.

This morning, the VPN has **** itself and is no longer working, so I need a better solution. For now I am emailing them the files etc so I need a fairly quick solution.

I have tried the inbuilt Server 2012 VPN and it does not work, so I need another client. I am obviously happy to run any program on the server.
The client machines are running Windows 7 Enterprise.

Any help please?

Thanks

 

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[ShivP]

OpenVPN on the server itself with the ports forwarded is probably the easiest and quickest solution.
There is a Windows option but I personally use it on Ubuntu so can't be of further help than that I'm afraid.

OK, thanks. Do you have a link to the Windows option?
I can't seem to find it

 

[BigT]

Windows and router port forwarding guide

 

[ShivP]

Windows and router port forwarding guide

Thank you

I have an issue on this step:


My server.ovpn file does not have the ca, cert etc lines in there?