two questions: not connecting and ethernet bridging

thelonghop

Hi, new to the forums, OpenVPN, and VPN in general. I have a Synology disk station back home and it is a VPN server. I had everything set up last week on my laptop and was able to access the disk station remotely with OpenVPN, but now it's not connecting. I get the following message:Mon Apr 29 20:42:33 2013 WARNING: No server certificate verification method has been enabled. See http://openvpn.net/howto.html#mitm for more info.
Mon Apr 29 20:42:33 2013 NOTE: the current --script-security setting may allow this configuration to call user-defined scripts
Mon Apr 29 20:42:33 2013 UDPv4 link local (bound): [undef]
Mon Apr 29 20:42:33 2013 UDPv4 link remote: [AF_INET](ip address and port here)
Mon Apr 29 20:43:33 2013 TLS Error: TLS key negotiation failed to occur within 60 seconds (check your network connectivity)
Mon Apr 29 20:43:33 2013 TLS Error: TLS handshake failed
Mon Apr 29 20:43:33 2013 SIGUSR1[soft,tls-error] received, process restarting

Do I need to export the cert again for some reason?

Also, I want to access my home network that the Synology disk station is on over OpenVPN. Is there a layman's guide for how to set something like that up?

thelonghop

Can someone help a newby out?

thelonghop

This is pretty pathetic if I can't get one response. It really says something about OpenVPN.

brendan

Also, I want to access my home network that the Synology disk station is on over OpenVPN. Is there a layman's guide for how to set something like that up?

taking the easy road first, not really. you need to forward UDP port 1194 (or whatever port you run your vpn instance on) from the router (your linksys/netgear/whatever) to the PC that is running OpenVPN. that device has to have a static IP address. if you have all of your devices with 192.168.1.xxx IPs, then you should be set from a network perspective.

as for the TLS errors, they are because the client and the server did not establish an SSL session within 60 seconds and the "connection" was terminated. is there a host based firewall running on the device running openvpn? was the client on the same network as the server? is port forwarding (as noted above) in place and working, if the client and server were not on the same network?

there are a lot of details needed, and if you are not providing many of them you might not get help on your topic.