need to open port on openvpn access server

Heya,

To achieve what you’re looking for, follow these steps:

1. Open the required port 1817 on your OpenVPN Access Server’s firewall.

2. Configure OpenVPN to forward the traffic coming from clients to the specified port on your home PC.

3. To open the port, use UFW (assuming you’re using Ubuntu or similar) with the following command:

sudo ufw allow 1817

2. To configure the port forwarding on OpenVPN, edit the server.conf file on the access server:

sudo nano /etc/openvpn/server/server.conf

Add the following line, replacing YOUR_HOME_PC_IP and YOUR_HOME_PC_PORT with the appropriate values:

push route YOUR_HOME_PC_IP 255.255.255.255 port YOUR_HOME_PC_PORT

Save the changes and restart the OpenVPN service:

sudo systemctl restart openvpn

Now, with the VPN connected, you should have access to the service on your home PC.

For more information about OpenVPN and port forwarding, check out How To Set Up and Configure an OpenVPN Server on Ubuntu 22.04.

Hope that this helps!