Red Squirrel
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- Nov 29, 2009
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I'm tired of dicking around trying to get openvpn to work whenever I want remote access to my network. Is there something easier, that will allow me to map NFS/SMB shares as well as access web based stuff on a remote network? Something I can setup in a pinch on any computer on any platform.
SSH tunnels are easy to setup, perhaps something that runs through one? One thing I have done for web based stuff use a SSH tunnel to a proxy server then do everything through the proxy, but sometimes I want to map folders too or access other stuff on the network. Is there an easy way of doing this?
I spent over 8 hours trying to get my old VPN server to work (randomly broke) and also a new VPN server in pfsense. I give up, there's got to be something easier. Part of the issue with open VPN is that everything is very poorly documented, and any steps it tells me to do arn't really explained. All these cert files and all this stuff is just overly complicated for nothing. Even the package creator, I thought would have done everything for me, but nope, the default file it creates does not work. The windows client is also very annoying to use because when I right click on it, for some reason it also initiates the default windows right click menu if I was to right click on the task bar, this then masks the actual open vpn menu so I have to fight with that each time.
SSH tunnels are easy to setup, perhaps something that runs through one? One thing I have done for web based stuff use a SSH tunnel to a proxy server then do everything through the proxy, but sometimes I want to map folders too or access other stuff on the network. Is there an easy way of doing this?
I spent over 8 hours trying to get my old VPN server to work (randomly broke) and also a new VPN server in pfsense. I give up, there's got to be something easier. Part of the issue with open VPN is that everything is very poorly documented, and any steps it tells me to do arn't really explained. All these cert files and all this stuff is just overly complicated for nothing. Even the package creator, I thought would have done everything for me, but nope, the default file it creates does not work. The windows client is also very annoying to use because when I right click on it, for some reason it also initiates the default windows right click menu if I was to right click on the task bar, this then masks the actual open vpn menu so I have to fight with that each time.