Hi,
Firstly, I'm not even sure this is possible -
I would like to set up my windows 8 desktop PC at home as a VPN server, and then at college use my USB stick with portableapps on it to launch apps such as firefox, thunderbird etc, using the proxy/connection settings which will connect them to my home VPN, and then allow me to access the internet freely via this method. Is this even possible?
IF it is, can anyone give me a quick walkthrough? I've honestly looked at loads of guides via google but they all seem to not mention the part where you actually set up a connection TO your VPN. They just seem to cover setting it up on your PC.
The router port forwarding / IP settings is kind of confusing too..
Thanks in advance.
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you need to keep relevant port open for that, PPTP may use 1723 for example, in your home router.
Then you have to have either a fixed IP at home or some kind of DynDNS service which will give you some url you can connect to.
Next the remote site where you want call from, that means work or school etc needs to allow the calls for such ports. This is not always so, as well protected networks will allow things like 80, 443 etc, but often not much more.
Further to setup VPN and route traffic from the college to your home, you need admin rights on the college computer.
The result of the VPN is that your computer at school is having during the connection time the IP of your home network. To set routes, admin rights are definitely needed to set all up.
Setting up PPTP then on the client is dead simple, you just use the vizard for new network on your college PC. Plenty tutorials in the web.
There is OpenVPN portable version, but to run it it needs full admin rights also.
You could use something like teamviewer, but if this is helpful in this situation I dont know. The free version will work something like 20Mins per day or so.
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>The router port forwarding / IP settings is kind of confusing too..
Otto Sykora
Basel, Switzerland
Hope it helps:
http://www.bestvpnservice.com/blog/how-to-set-up-pptp-vpn-on-windows-8/
most operating systems have pptp build in, but this is not the major problem. Problem is, that the pptp server mus be reachable from the client at all and this is what most people for get to realize.
Setting up pptp on w8 is not different from setting it up in other clients, this is the easy part. Many people forget that relevant ports have to be forwarded in their routers, there has to be a IPv4 tunnel over IPv6 if the connection is such etc.
Otto Sykora
Basel, Switzerland