On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 13:30, Per Jessen
Oszkó Albert wrote:
Dear all,
I have been struggling with setting openVPN for a long time. I wish to build an openVPN connection between home and my workplace. I got two files from the workplace: ca.crt and ta.key, and of course, the login/password pair. I have oS 11.4 and KDE 4.6.5. Could somebody tell me, how can I set up this connection. How can I check that it is really working. For this I usually try to connect to a literature database available only for "insiders".
Hello Albert
openVPN and KDE are two essentially unrelated topics - to start with, I would go and google "openvpn howto". There is quite a bit of documentation out there. As you already have the keys and userid/passwd for login, all you need is the server address and to configure your openvpn client. You need to store the key-files in the right place, typically /etc/openvpn, then create a client.conf roughly like this:
client dev tun proto udp remote <yourserver> 1194 resolv-retry infinite nobind user nobody group nobody persist-key persist-tun ca ca.crt cert yourcert.crt key yourkey.key ns-cert-type server
Manage Connections > VPN > Add > OpenVPN. This is where you define
I use openVPN with KDE4 all the time... and it's quite easy. Assuming openVPN for the network manager is installed (it's in the repositories) I just use the network manager to add a new VPN connection, and then.. click on the VPN name in the network manager. Setting up the VPN connection can be done through the Network Manager the remote IP, the security type, and upload your certificates... once that's complete, you should see a clickable link in the Network Manager widget.... click it, and assuming you've defined the VPN correctly, it'll connect in a few seconds. I haven't had to tinker in the /etc/openvpn directory at all... of course that should work too if you know what/where to edit etc. C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org