Config to enable local network access

[jl-678]

Hi,

The primary use of a ovpn for me is to allow remote access to local servers. I am struggling to get it configured to work properly. The app works flawlessly for accessing the public Internet, but I just cannot seem to get it working for local access. Can anyone share the settings that they use to enable this?

As an aside, I have another ovpn setup running in my environment and it supports this, but those settings don't work here.

Update: I would also like clients to use the DNS server on the local network.

TIA

[jl-678]

Update: I found this thread here, and it included this link for configuration local access.

The OpenVPN article suggests that we add this to the openvpn.conf:

route <LAN IP> 255.255.255.0 <OpenVPN IP>

I have tried this setting and find that adding it causes the rebuild of ovpn-admin to fail. Not sure what I am doing wrong...

[jl-678]

Update: I gave up on this and instead switched to using the ovpn-binary along with my existing ovpn installation which is running in an LXC container. While there were issues getting it running caused by bugs in ovpn-user, I eventually got it working.

For future visitors, I still have no idea how to enable local access with the Docker version of OVPN-Admin and OpenVPN.

[SzaZo-Halycomp]

i think what you need is push route and iroute commands in client config, and you dont need to rebuild the container:

client1:
ifconfig-push $IP1 255.255.255.0

push "route $LAN2 255.255.255.0 $IP2" #LAN2 subnet

iroute $LAN1 255.255.255.0

client2:
ifconfig-push $IP2 255.255.255.0

push "route $LAN1 255.255.255.0 $IP1" #LAN2 subnet

iroute $LAN2 255.255.255.0