Help connecting to school's vpn

Dragomundo · 2018-10-31 06:39:18

Okay so I'm using openvpn to try and connect to my schools vpn. (required for use of SQL Developer)
I don't know what anything means so please help

here is my /etc/openvpn/client/client.conf

# Specify that we are a client and that we
# will be pulling certain config file directives
# from the server.
client

# Use the same setting as you are using on
# the server.
# On most systems, the VPN will not function
# unless you partially or fully disable
# the firewall for the TUN/TAP interface.
;dev tap
dev tun

# Windows needs the TAP-Win32 adapter name
# from the Network Connections panel
# if you have more than one.  On XP SP2,
# you may need to disable the firewall
# for the TAP adapter.
;dev-node MyTap

# Are we connecting to a TCP or
# UDP server?  Use the same setting as
# on the server.
;proto tcp
proto udp

# The hostname/IP and port of the server.
# You can have multiple remote entries
# to load balance between the servers.
remote vpn.ualr.edu 1194
;remote vpn.ualr.edu 1194

# Choose a random host from the remote
# list for load-balancing.  Otherwise
# try hosts in the order specified.
;remote-random

# Keep trying indefinitely to resolve the
# host name of the OpenVPN server.  Very useful
# on machines which are not permanently connected
# to the internet such as laptops.
resolv-retry infinite

# Most clients don't need to bind to
# a specific local port number.
nobind

# Downgrade privileges after initialization (non-Windows only)
;user nobody
;group nobody

# Try to preserve some state across restarts.
persist-key
persist-tun

# If you are connecting through an
# HTTP proxy to reach the actual OpenVPN
# server, put the proxy server/IP and
# port number here.  See the man page
# if your proxy server requires
# authentication.
#;http-proxy-retry # retry on connection failures
#;http-proxy [proxy server] [proxy port #]

# Wireless networks often produce a lot
# of duplicate packets.  Set this flag
# to silence duplicate packet warnings.
;mute-replay-warnings

# SSL/TLS parms.
# See the server config file for more
# description.  It's best to use
# a separate .crt/.key file pair
# for each client.  A single ca
# file can be used for all clients.
ca ca.crt
cert client.crt
key client.key

# Verify server certificate by checking that the
# certicate has the correct key usage set.
# This is an important precaution to protect against
# a potential attack discussed here:
#  [url]http://openvpn.net/howto.html#mitm[/url]
#
# To use this feature, you will need to generate
# your server certificates with the keyUsage set to
#   digitalSignature, keyEncipherment
# and the extendedKeyUsage to
#   serverAuth
# EasyRSA can do this for you.
remote-cert-tls server

# If a tls-auth key is used on the server
# then every client must also have the key.
tls-auth ta.key 1

# Select a cryptographic cipher.
# If the cipher option is used on the server
# then you must also specify it here.
# Note that v2.4 client/server will automatically
# negotiate AES-256-GCM in TLS mode.
# See also the ncp-cipher option in the manpage
cipher AES-256-CBC

# Enable compression on the VPN link.
# Don't enable this unless it is also
# enabled in the server config file.
#comp-lzo

# Set log file verbosity.
verb 3

# Silence repeating messages
;mute 20

tls-crypt ta.key

here is the output of running

sudo openvpn/client/client.conf

sudo openvpn /etc/openvpn/client/client.conf
Options error: --ca fails with 'ca.crt': No such file or directory (errno=2)
Options error: --cert fails with 'client.crt': No such file or directory (errno=2)
Wed Oct 31 20:32:52 2018 WARNING: cannot stat file 'client.key': No such file or directory (errno=2)
Options error: --key fails with 'client.key': No such file or directory (errno=2)
Wed Oct 31 20:32:52 2018 WARNING: cannot stat file 'ta.key': No such file or directory (errno=2)
Options error: --tls-auth fails with 'ta.key': No such file or directory (errno=2)
Options error: Please correct these errors.
Use --help for more information.

what are certificates, why do i need them, and how do i get them, and most importantly, how do i connect to a vpn server remotely

might just VM windows10 if i can't figure this out, because I've spent WAAYY too much time on this and need to get to work

not making a vpn server, just wanna connect, tried networkmanager-openvpn, networkmanager-pptp, pptpclient, openswan/xl2tpd

Last edited by Dragomundo (2018-11-01 01:58:34)

jasonwryan · 2018-10-31 07:03:07

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ne … PN_support

Slithery · 2018-10-31 07:25:15

Do you know what type of VPN it is?

Dragomundo · 2018-10-31 07:32:45

Yeah its a l2tp over IPSec

Arch Linux

#1 2018-10-31 06:39:18

Help connecting to school's vpn

#2 2018-10-31 07:03:07

Re: Help connecting to school's vpn

#3 2018-10-31 07:25:15

Re: Help connecting to school's vpn

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Re: Help connecting to school's vpn

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