On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 02:45:36PM +0000, William Hill wrote:
On 11 Jan 2015, at 15:20, Chris Green wrote:
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?
You get your laptop, out and about, to appear as a machine on your home network. So you can access everything you've got firewalled off from the internet, NAS backup disks, printers, RaspberryPi cameras and the like. I've got 3 vpn's set up, one for getting in to my home network from outside, one on a AWS instance for bypassing geolocation and one to the 44.*.*.* ham network, so my radio-connected Pi appears in the same network as the rest.
My most likely requirement is to be able to get at the web configuration pages of router(s), NAS systems, etc. which aren't accessible from outside. Having run the VPN client on the laptop how do I view one of these in Firefox on the laptop? Does it 'just work' in exactly the same way as when I'm at home - e.g. I can just put "http://mikrotik/" into the browser address bar or is there some extra indirection involved?