OpenVPN Support Forum

I am just getting started. I installed the GUI and configured a user with a static IP. Made the user
local and entered a password.

Now I have some open vpn configurations as a client so I copied the .ovpn file to my directory.
I did find on my openvpn server .crt and .key files. I copied them also. In the ovpn file I changed
the server address to the one I was setting up, and changed the file names to match what I found
on the server (they were slightly different).

When I did openvpn config.ovpn
on the server in the log file I noticed something like "No HMAC packet found". A search showed that it
means tls is running on the server but not on client. I couldn't figure out how either to use it on the
client, or inhibit it on the server.

The ca and key files along with the ovpn are on my machine at work. I will enter them here tomorrow when
I get to work, but I wanted to get a jump start now to see if anyone can answer some basic questions
such as where does the client get all the files it needs to connect to the server. I THINK I may have
found all of them EXCEPT the ovpn file, but I am not sure and not sure if I have the correct
certificates, etc. Can anyone give me some insight before I get a chance to post those 4 cert/key
files?

By the way, the connectivity test failed when I tried from the GUI. And this is Linux CentOS 5.4

OK I see when you go to 192.168.5.99:943 (the openvpn main page) there is something called server-locked.ovpn and client.ovpn. The client.ovpn is only for root, and the server-locked.ovpn is for any user. The client.ovpn works fine, but only for login root. When I try the server-locked.ovpn it says it is a generic one and cannot be used directly. I tried to edit it to allow specific users but I cannot figure out how.

Do you know how to edit the server-locked one, or better still how to create client.ovpn files for users in addition to root?