OpenVPN roadwarrior cant access LAN clients

charlie0440

I followed the guide here http://blog.stefcho.eu/?p=492 for setting up a roadwarrior openVPN.

It all connects fine:

Green lights on Windows Vista - openVPN GUI client
Expected IP address allocated
Access to the pfsense webGUI
I am able to ping local clients

What I can't do is view their shared files as in Windows Networking, RDP etc etc. What steps am I missing. I tried adding a push "route 192.168.100.0 255.255.255.0"; to the advanced settings but that didn't seem to solve it.

Open Vpn tunnel settings I have:

Tunnel Network: 192.168.50.0/24
Local Network : 192.168.100.0/24

They are on different subnets, I am running openVPn with admin rights, right clicking and selecting admin rights. The firewall only has the default rules created while setting up the VPN:

WAN:
UDP * * WAN address 1194 (OpenVPN) * none

LAN:

- - LAN Address 80 * * Anti-Lockout Rule
    TCP/UDP * * * * * none Lan to all

OPENVPN:

- - - - none OpenVPN Road Warrior wizard
- - - - none OpenVPN Road Warrior wizard

^^^ I don't know why there are two of these but there are.

Can anyone point me in the right direction????

charlie0440

OK I was being an idiot. Pulled my hair out for ages changing openVPN settings and firewall rules. Why do I always start with the complicated issues and not go first to the easier most obvious. Turning off Windows firewall on the PC which I was trying to access.

In case anyone stumbles across this with the same problem. I found with windows firewall enabled, XP PCs could be pinged, while windows 7 PCs could not. Therefore I changed the ICMP settings in the windows 7 firewall to allow incoming and outgoing packets from the subnet of the openVPN tunnel.

I also had to do the same for both XP and win7 for SMB -> allow the openVPN tunnel subnet access. Now everything works as expected with windows firewall enabled ;D