Help Setting Up VPN

Can anyone point me in the right direction for setting up OpenVPN? Is there a step-by-step guide anywhere?

I have tried following the guides on the OpenVPN website, but just wind up confusing myself more. I am wanting to run a simple VPN from my home to my office with ethernet bridging. I am getting hung up trying to generate the security certificates, and reference these in the config files that OpenVPN requires. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

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Stone1269
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The average person is not going to know how to use OpenVPN.

GoToMyPC makes it easy for the average person.

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Sincerely,

Brad Reese BradReese.Com Cisco Repair Worldwide United Kingdom: 44-20-70784294 U.S. Toll Free: 877-549-2680 International: 828-277-7272 Fax: 775-254-3558 Website:

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GotoMyPC is definitely NOT what I am looking for. I need full network access, not just remote computer access. Besides, if that is all I was looking for, I would use a VNC client, not GotoMyPC.

I consider myself above the 'average' user when it comes to computer skills. I am simply having trouble getting clear instructions I need to generate the security certificates OpenVPN requires. This is something new to me, and most instructions I find are aimed at Linux users.

BradReeseCom wrote:

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Stone1269

Why dont't you try first with a shared key and see if that works. Then try to do it with the certificates. I did it following the openvpn site guides and works great. My server is a Slackware 10 box and the client I use is a Win XP SP2 via modem.

Hope this helps.

Good luck!!

Aiki2

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aiki2

Try OpenVPN Bridging with Windows HOWTO

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Hope it is helpful.

Sincerely,

Brad Reese

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