Fresh Install: TLS handshake failed
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Routing and network "discovery" are two different things. You will want to use something like a domain controller or cough WINS to discover network resources across routed subnets.
It should work to IP addresses like \ip.address\share
I don't know what you mean sorry.
I have looked through the documentation https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/OpenVPN_Remote_Access_Server however couldn't find anything about accessing network resources. Where would I find information on getting it to work? Its pretty pointless having a VPN and not be able to access my network shares.
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You are talking about a windows problem, not a VPN problem. Look for information on "windows network discovery between subnets." Or something like that.
Check Windows resources, not pfSense resources. It's just routing between subnets. Nothing different than having a local LAN1 and LAN2.
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Still cannot get shared resources to work over OpenVPN.
Can someone tell me whether it is a problem with my network config?
My LAN interface is 10.1.1.1/16
My OpenVPN tunnel network is 172.22.203.0/24
I can get a VPN connection but cannot access my servers shares.
I have tried changing the OpenVPN tunnel to 172.22.203.0/16 however the daemon won't run with this config.
Could someone who actually has a working OpenVPN connection, with access to shared resources, post what config they are utilising? At the moment it seems to me that PFSense OpenVPN doesn't seems to support it.
I have posted on the unRaid forums that I am having this problem as someone here said that it wasn't a PFsense problem. As expected people on the Unraid forums are saying its a PFSense problem.
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I guess you are not hearing what I am saying.
Network discovery generally does not work across IP subnets/routers without helpers.
Can you ping the unraid server by IP address? Then your VPN is working.
I looked for some documentation on the unraid site about network discovery for their file shares and came up empty.
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I guess you are not hearing what I am saying.
Network discovery generally does not work across IP subnets/routers without helpers.
Can you ping the unraid server by IP address? Then your VPN is working.
I looked for some documentation on the unraid site about network discovery for their file shares and came up empty.
I hear what you are saying, I don't understand what you mean however.
Yes I can ping the unRaid server.
I can ping, by IP address, all my local machines
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Have you, by chance, done any searching on network share discovery across subnets?
What, exactly, are you trying to do that is not working?
Details matter here. Please be specific.
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What he means is all of the service discovery protocols are broadcast or multicast and almost none of those protocols work across routers because routers can not forward the broadcast/multicast traffic, this is by design. Some more clever protocols such as mDNS do actually support discovery across routers but that is because they implement a proxy that listens for and forwards the service announcements across subnets. The avahi package implements mDNS on FreeBSD and I believe also on pfSense.
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Have you, by chance, done any searching on network share discovery across subnets?
What, exactly, are you trying to do that is not working?
Details matter here. Please be specific.
I am trying to access Unraid SMB shares from my laptop whilst connected via OpenVPN. I cannot do this, I cannot see or access any shared resources.
I have searched for solutions, people on the unRaid forums said that it isan OpenVPN/Freenas problem.
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Have you, by chance, done any searching on network share discovery across subnets?
What, exactly, are you trying to do that is not working?
Details matter here. Please be specific.
I am trying to access Unraid SMB shares from my laptop whilst connected via OpenVPN. I cannot do this, I cannot see or access any shared resources.
I have searched for solutions, people on the unRaid forums said that it isan OpenVPN/Freenas problem.
SMB is windows file sharing and it uses broadcast based discovery which doesn't traverse routers as already noted. You can access the shares directly by IP address or host name assuming you have DNS set up properly and your client system can resolve the DNS name of the server hosting the shares.
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people on the unRaid forums said that it isan OpenVPN/Freenas problem.
And people on the pfSense forum are telling you exactly what the problem is.
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@kpa:
Have you, by chance, done any searching on network share discovery across subnets?
What, exactly, are you trying to do that is not working?
Details matter here. Please be specific.
I am trying to access Unraid SMB shares from my laptop whilst connected via OpenVPN. I cannot do this, I cannot see or access any shared resources.
I have searched for solutions, people on the unRaid forums said that it isan OpenVPN/Freenas problem.
SMB is windows file sharing and it uses broadcast based discovery which doesn't traverse routers as already noted. You can access the shares directly by IP address or host name assuming you have DNS set up properly and your client system can resolve the DNS name of the server hosting the shares.
I am unable to access the shares via IP address. I receive a message 'Access is Denied'.
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Sounds like there is probably something on the server preventing access from subnets other than the local network.
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I can tell you for sure that I access smb shares from openvpn all the time!! Every day almost.. I could for sure fire up a freenas instance and access it from the vpn. So your saying you can access your freenas webgui? Or via ssh but you can not access your shares?
edit: Well I can tell you 1 thing for sure, just fired up freenas and when set to dhcp it does not set a default route?? So yeah going to be impossible to access it from any other network, like a remote vpn user. You would need to setup default gateway if you want to access it remotely that is for sure.
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Ok.. So at work and connected to my vpn.. So you can see I can ping my freenas by name, and traceroute shows I am connected via a tunnel. The latency is high because I have to bounce off a proxy that is in Jax, FL while I am in chicago and then back to chicago where my pfsense is..
But as you can see I can access the share off freenas just fine via name, and even create a folder, etc.
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Hello,
I finished installing openvpn and I did not exactly do it wrong, by chance I managed to solve it.
May 2 15:13:15 openvpn 85741 Options error: –server directive network/netmask combination is invalid
May 2 15:13:15 openvpn 85741 Use --help for more information.
May 2 15:13:24 openvpn 3650 Options error: --server directive network/netmask combination is invalid
May 2 15:13:24 openvpn 3650 Use --help for more information.obrigado,
Rodrigo
