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.