Comments on: Install & Configure OpenVPN SSL VPN in SUSE & openSUSE Linux

By: Prime

Prime — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 14:55:04 +0000

Hi,
I tried to configure and run OpenVPN server on CentOS, but it doesn’t run. I checked more than tree time evry step that mentioned in this article or OpenVPN.net
When I run openvpn, I get following error:
“Options error: Unrecognized or missing parameter(s)in server.conf:78 :ca (2.2.1)”
I’m sure where the ca, server cert and server key are.
I’m disappointed about Linux!!

Please help me.
Prime

By: Marc

Marc — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 19:49:13 +0000

In the real admin world, users come, users go… Would be nice to add instructions for us admin types that explain how to manage certificates, add and remove them as necessary… I DON’T want to have to rebuild ALL the certificates for all our users and redistribute them each time we acquire a new bod! Ditto for a network topology change… As Robin might say “Holy Repetition Batman! We have hundreds of users!”

By: fiseha

fiseha — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 13:05:03 +0000

pls give me brief explanation about how to use this software

By: ratha

ratha — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 03:48:04 +0000

i have 1 domain with server2003 and suse use openvpn about question common name. which computer name will i annswer?

By: Solutions of Love

Solutions of Love — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:33:54 +0000

@Mohammed
if you haven’t figured out your problem yet:
you most likely forgot to install openvpn on your machine. On opensuse 11.2 it always is there after successful install.

@admin:
it is very unfortunate to maintain all the wrong PATHS after having been made aware of it. such a howto on susegeek.com at least should have copy/paste paths for a current opensuse environment.

@others
basically the above howto is a copy/paste with some rewrite from the original at
http://openvpn.net/howto.html
or
http://openvpn.net/index.php/open-source/documentation/howto.html

since openvpn is still popular – more than ever and also available for new mobiles such as Nokia N900 with a debian based Linux …
it may be a good practice to go back to the original howto at http://openvpn.net/
at least we have NO missing spaces and NO wrong paths and verify the howto procedure with the current maintained howto version.

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By: BoooleAAARooo

BoooleAAARooo — Sun, 30 May 2010 16:05:05 +0000

Hello, i think that here is wrong:
Opensuse:~ # cd /etc/opensuse/easy-rsa/2.0/ opensuse:/etc/opensuse/easy-rsa/2.0/ # . ./vars opensuse:/etc/opensuse/easy-rsa/2.0/ # ./clean-all opensuse:/etc/opensuse/easy-rsa/2.0/ # ./build-ca

Its should be:

Opensuse:~ # cd /etc/openvpn/easy-rsa/2.0/ opensuse:/etc/openvpn/easy-rsa/2.0/ # . ./vars opensuse:/etc/openvpn/easy-rsa/2.0/ # ./clean-all opensuse:/etc/openvpn/easy-rsa/2.0/ # ./build-ca

But its not working for me.

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By: Nick

Nick — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 22:57:08 +0000

Ok this great. I will be installing this on my suse box that is running shorewall as my firewall. I guess I would have to open port 1194. Is there anything else I would have to do to the firewall if I am running openvpn on the same box? Also If I want to connect to it from a windows client like xp,vista or win7. Is there a download for that? Would it be easy to configure the client? Thanks in advance for all your help.

By: Jose Antonio

Jose Antonio — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 19:28:27 +0000

sorry: in espace, read space