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Setting up a VPN connection with Windows 10 requires you having the proper credentials to access a server. Be sure you have these before you continue. You may have to coordinate with your system administrator.
Once you have all the required information, here is how you can set up a VPN connection in your Windows 10 computer:
- ■Log on to your Windows 10 PC with an administrator account.
■Once on the desktop window, click the Start button from the bottom-left corner of the screen.
■From the left section of the displayed Start menu, under the Places section, click Settings.
■On the open Settings window, click the Network & Internet icon.
■From the left pane of the open Network & Internet window, click to select the VPN category.
■From the right pane, click the + icon representing the Add a VPN connection option.
■On the Add a VPN connection box, populate the fields with the correct values.
■Make sure that the Remembermy sign-in info checkbox at the bottom is checked, and click Save.
Note: You may not want to save the sign-in info on public computers such as those in Internet cafes, or libraries. Do NOT check the Remember my sign-in info when using such computers.
■Once the new VPN connection is successfully created, back on the Network & Internet window, keeping the VPN category selected from the left pane, click to select the newly created VPN connection from the right.
■Once selected, from the available buttons, you can either click Connect or Forget to connect to the VPN server using the provided details and credentials, or to remove the created connection respectively. Optionally, if needed, you can also click the Properties button to make changes to the created VPN connection.
■Optionally, you can click the Advanced settings option under the Additional settings section on the same window to manage other VPN connection related configurations such as proxy settings, automatic detection, etc.
■After closing all the windows, you can still easily connect to the VPN server by clicking the Network icon from system tray at the bottom-right corner of the window, and clicking the Show available connections under the Additional settings section of the Wi-Fi or Ethernet category of the opened Network & Internet window.
Note:
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Note: You can also follow the path described in step 12 to create a new VPN connection. The path followed in steps 2 to 5 is explained for detailed information purposes.
Having a virtual private network affords a lot of convenience, particularly for those who want or need to access a remote network from a different location, such as connecting to a work network from home, or vice versa. With the availability of 3G on the road, or wireless hotspots everywhere, being able to connect, securely, to a remote private network from anywhere is ideal.
OpenVPN is one of the most reliable VPN setups around. It's fully open source, it's supported on Linux, Windows, and OS X, it's robust, and it's secure. Unfortunately, configuration can be a bit of a pain, so in a series of upcoming tips, I aim to get you up and running quickly.
To begin, you will need to have OpenVPN installed on the server or system you wish to use as a VPN end-point. Most distributions include OpenVPN; for the server setup, I am using OpenVPN 2.0.9 as provided by the RPMForge repository for CentOS 5.
The first part of this series concentrates on the server, while the second and third parts will concentrate on the configuration of Linux and OS X clients, respectively. So without further ado, let's get our hands dirty.
To begin with, you need to copy some files from the OpenVPN docs directory (typically provided in /usr/share/doc/openvpn-[version]) to create certificates:
In the vars file, edit the KEY_* entries at the bottom of the file, such as KEY_COUNTRY, KEY_ORG, KEY_EMAIL, etc. These will be used to build the OpenSSL certificates. Next, it's time to initialize the PKI:
For the above, and the below client certificates, you can enter pretty much anything for the 'Common Name' field, however there is a certain logic to use: 'OpenVPN-CA' when generating the Certificate Authority, 'server' when generating the server certificate, and 'client' or the name of the specific client system for the client certificates. Those certificates are generated with:
The next step is to generate the Diffie Hellman parameters for the server:
When this is done, you will have a number of files in the keys/ subdirectory. At this point, for the clients, you want to copy the appropriate files to them securely (i.e., via SSH or on a USB stick); the files the clients need are ca.crt, client1.crt, and client1.key (or whatever you named the files when you generated them with the build-key script).
Next, create the OpenVPN server configuration file. To get up and running quickly, copy one of the example config files:
The aim here is to get this going right away, so we won't examine each of the options in detail. The primary things you want to do are to uncomment the 'user' and 'group' directives, to make the openvpn process run as the unprivileged 'nobody' user. You may also want to change the 'local' directive to make it listen to one specific IP address. This would be the IP to which your firewall is forwarding UDP port 1194. As well, you will want to set the 'client-to-client' directive to enable it, and also set the 'push' directives for route and DNS options. What follows is a comment-stripped server.conf, as an example:
Finally, copy the required keys and certificates that you previously generated:
And, finally, start the OpenVPN server:
To get routing set up properly on the server so that remote clients, when they connect, can reach more than just the server itself, you will need to enable IP forwarding. This can be done by the following:
You can also do it by editing /etc/sysctl.conf and adding the following (this is a good thing to do as it will ensure that packet-forwarding persists across reboots):
You also want to ensure that packets going back to the client system are routed properly. This can be done by changing the route on the gateway of the server's network to route packets to the client network (10.8.0.1/32) through the OpenVPN server (if the server happens to be the gateway as well, you don't have to do anything additional to accomplish this). How this is done largely depends on the operating system of the gateway.
Once this is done, you should be able to ping any machine on the server's LAN from the client, and be able to ping the client from any machine on the server's LAN. For instance, from a machine on the server LAN (not the server):
And from the client:
The setting up of OpenVPN clients will be the subject of two tips in the next week. I've made the assumption that the client is correctly configured here, simply to illustrate how it should look when it all works together, but in the next parts of this series we will get into more depth with the client configuration.
Download the PDF, 'How to set up OpenVPN server and create Linux and Mac OS X clients.'