I am trying to follow this tutorial to connect to my home network: https://www.outcoldman.com/en/archive/2014/10/21/ubuntu-as-a-home-server-part-2-openvpn/
I need only the "... to get access to home network" part from it, so I don't want to connect to internet via VPN, I want just connect to my home network with it. The problem that there is no description about how to configure a Windows 8.1 VPN client to do so. I tried out some tutorials about Windows 8.1 VPN, but I suspect that all of them are about connecting to the internet via VPN. Another problem that I could not use the previously generate key, because it required username + password authentication. Is there a way to use the built in VPN tool in Windows to connect to my home network, or should I install a different VPN client?
"To do that you will need to update Routing Tables on your devices, the easiest way to do that will be to add them to your home router (if it supports that). "
. I have a working dyndns (tried out with a HTTP server), but I cannot ping the vpn server, I got "unknown host" message. I set up a port forwarding on the router. On win 8.1 there was no option to use the auth key generated by the vpn server. :Sping
command line are you using and from where?ping x.ddns.net:443
from git bash on windows or from the server itself. None of them worked.ping
. BTTW, are you sure you need an Ubuntu server for the VPN? Why don't you let your router handle it?