I'm thinking about using a VPN for remote access to my desktop machine when out and about.
The obvious choice (?) is to run an OpenVpn server on my desktop machine and clients on my laptop or whatever when I'm away. I won't want to get access from 'foreign' machines on which I don't have the ability to install stuff.
I've wandered around the OpenVpn website and can follow (I think!) all the technical stuff about how to install it etc. and how to run clients.
What I don't understand and nowhere seems to tell me is what it actually does for me as a user. I mean there I am away from home somewhere and I've connected to the server using the OpenVpn client - then what? I don't think I get a home machine desktop as such, so what do I get? If I want to access my address book or configure my router what do I do?