19 Jan Setting up an OpenVPN server on Windows

A few years (!) ago, I wrote about using [accessing your files from anywhere](https://www.michaelcheng.us/stuff/15) using a custom DDNS setup. In the 2 years I've been in Chicago so far, my entire apartment building has shared one IP address. That meant my custom DDNS solution couldn't work anymore, and so I looked into other ways I could access my files from anywhere. I couldn't find any. There are things like [ngrok](https://ngrok.com/) that can expose local servers through tunnels, but that wouldn't work for my on-demand use case where I'd remotely turn on my computer to access files through SMB.