Hello hivemind.
So i got my router reprogrammed to OpenWRT. Added OpenVPN server (multi client/user) and that works. I can connect via the VPN and despite being on a differtent DHCP range i can connect to the devices on the LAN side of the tunnel via their IP adresses.
However, Windows on the client side can't see the available devices/systems from their hostnames.
The Network window/folder remains empty.
What needs to be changed so that the windows client does populate the network folder, just like the systems on the LAN side show the devices?
Some of the Windows software i use look for the other systems by their hostnames rather than their IP. Windows not finding / getting these names pushed / pulled to it breaks these programs.
Even with an active VPN i'm not seeing an openvpn tunnel interface.
And adding "LAN" to the listen interfaces list killed the connection to the internet (DNS lookup fail?)
Neither of the sample configs are used by the actual VPN config.
No idea as to how to add the actual cofig to this list. That said. i downloaded the server.conf and renamed it server.ovpn. loaded that into luci-openvpn. saved, enabled etc all that seemed to result in is a broken VPN connection. I can connect and get an IP. But no other devices show up. can't even reach them by their IP. No internet acces neither.
How to roll that back???
Not sure if my latest config backup was from after i got the VPN to 'work" last night. looking at the timestamp... no...
BTW.
Looking at some of the commands in the posted setup page.
# Fetch WAN IP address
. /lib/functions/network.sh
network_flush_cache
There is a space between the period and the forward slash. I feel that that space shouldn't be there.
ok. on the last part... i just reran part 4 (VPN service) after doing the # Add one more client
from the multi-client page and got the other client's ovpn file.
But this is still a TUN not a TAP.
How to switch to TAP? not as simple as changing the names in the conf and client files i assume..
