SoftEther-VPN server just has local IP, guides miss info [ubuntu]
Posted: Sat May 28, 2022 4:42 pm
I am new to network-science
I want to open a SoftEther-VPN server on my physical Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS server and access it via multiple windows-based clients. The official guide https://www.softether.org/4-docs/2-howt ... Ad-hoc_VPN for a simple, session based VPN-connection is provided only with the windows GUI-version.
An installation was successful and i have a startup-script https://www.softether.org/4-docs/1-manu ... igurations (see chapter 7.3.8) and i can add virtual hubs and add users via, the terminal-based config tool. If I now connect from a windows client within the same LAN i gain access to the VPN-server, which tells me that the hub and user-configurations are working.
I do not understand why upon starting the VPN-server with it returns the lines
...which is just the regular local address of the physical server. Now excuse my ignorance, but shouldn't i get some form of URL which is globally accessible which then asks me for either a server, hub, or user-password upon calling it from a client? Because right now I can't quite see the mechanism which actually establishes a connection to the outside world. Does every physical machine need a VPN-server or is one server and multiple clients enough?
I want to open a SoftEther-VPN server on my physical Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS server and access it via multiple windows-based clients. The official guide https://www.softether.org/4-docs/2-howt ... Ad-hoc_VPN for a simple, session based VPN-connection is provided only with the windows GUI-version.
An installation was successful and i have a startup-script https://www.softether.org/4-docs/1-manu ... igurations (see chapter 7.3.8) and i can add virtual hubs and add users via
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./vpncmd
I do not understand why upon starting the VPN-server with
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sudo /etc/init.d/vpnserver start
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The SoftEther VPN Server service has been started.
Let's get started by accessing to the following URL from your PC:
https://192.168.1.136:5555/
or
https://192.168.1.136/
Note: IP address may vary. Specify your server's IP address.
A TLS certificate warning will appear because the server uses self signed certificate by default. That is natural. Continue with ignoring the TLS warning.