(https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/w ... ingOpenVPN)
Note, I cannot proceed past step 1 Downloading and Installing OpenVPN. Seems like it installs properly, but nothing happens at the end. No bang.
- The OpenVPN GUI fails to open a GUI.
- The batch files themselves (down in the Certificates & Keys section) fail to run past Building Certificates & Keys 1. build-ca.bat
It fails something horrendous with a message:
$ ./build-ca.bat
req [options] <infile >outfile
where options are
-inform arg input format - DER or PEM
-outform arg output format - DER or PEM
-in arg input file
-out arg output file
-text text form of request
-pubkey output public key
-noout do not output REQ
-verify verify signature on REQ
-modulus RSA modulus
-nodes don't encrypt the output key
-engine e use engine e, possibly a hardware device
-subject output the request's subject
-passin private key password source
-key file use the private key contained in file
-keyform arg key file format
-keyout arg file to send the key to
-rand file:file:...
load the file (or the files in the directory) into
the random number generator
-newkey rsa:bits generate a new RSA key of 'bits' in size
-newkey dsa:file generate a new DSA key, parameters taken from CA in 'file'
-newkey ec:file generate a new EC key, parameters taken from CA in 'file'
-[digest] Digest to sign with (md5, sha1, md2, mdc2, md4)
-config file request template file.
-subj arg set or modify request subject
-multivalue-rdn enable support for multivalued RDNs
-new new request.
-batch do not ask anything during request generation
-x509 output a x509 structure instead of a cert. req.
-days number of days a certificate generated by -x509 is valid for.
-set_serial serial number to use for a certificate generated by -x509.
-newhdr output "NEW" in the header lines
-asn1-kludge Output the 'request' in a format that is wrong but some CA's
have been reported as requiring
-extensions .. specify certificate extension section (override value in config file)
-reqexts .. specify request extension section (override value in config file )
-utf8 input characters are UTF8 (default ASCII)
-nameopt arg - various certificate name options
-reqopt arg - various request text options
If I click on the OpenVPN GUI button, it simply states, "OpenVPN GUI already running". I have cycled through my open windows 2, 3 times.. I cannot see any sort of OpenVPN GUI anywhere.
I used Task Manager to kill the process. Restarted the OpenVPN GUI - no joy. No idea where that GUI has gone, but its not on my desktop.
Tried watching this vid on Youtube: https://youtu.be/Td_RziIo1gE
I never see the GUI this guy(gal?) has up on his screen at 2:08. In fact, my desktop icon for OpenVPN GUI does not look anything like that newer OpenVPN icon. This appears to be the 32-bit GUI version. In the ..\OpenVPN\bin directory, I tried clicking & running the other openvpn-gui (with the modern looking icon). Same result. Nothing showing on my desktop, but a process is loaded and running in the Task Manager.
In the process bar, I can see the mini-icon, right-clicking, I can bring up a OpenVPN-Settings window with 3 tabs - Proxy, General (language selection only), About. OpenVPN Gui shows v5.
What am I not doing?
