More than likely, those plugins will not be installed on the distribution by default. Test to make sure by pinging a known address on the LAN behind the VPN.īoth KDE and GNOME offer plugins for their network manager applets that allow VPN connection to an OpenVPN server. Once this service has restarted, the remote LAN should be accessible. The only step that is remaining is to restart OpenVPN with the command sudo /etc/init.d/openvpn restart. Hostname.* is the actual name of the certificate and keyfile names.īelieve it or not, that’s it. is the address to the OpenVPN server.ġ194 is the port configured on the OpenVPN server. Open up /etc/openvpn/nf with a text editor (such as Nano or vi) and take a look at the following section: With that file in place, it’s time to make a few edits. The first step in the configuration of the client is to copy the sample client configuration file to the proper directory with the command sudo cp /usr/share/doc/openvpn/examples/sample-config-files/nf /etc/openvpn. If the server doesn’t have direct access to the client, just put them on a flash drive and copy from there. /etc/openvpn/easy-rsa/keys/hostname.key (Where hostname is the hostname of the client).Ĭopy those files over using a tool like scp from the server to the client./etc/openvpn/easy-rsa/keys/hostname.crt (Where hostname is the hostname of the client).The files that need to be securely copied to the client’s /etc/openvpn directory are: To install on Ubuntu, follow these easy steps:Īccept any dependencies necessary and allow the install to complete.īelieve it or not, that’s it for the installation of OpenVPN.Īs discussed in the previous article, there will have been certificates created (on the server) specifically for the client machine. The package to be installed is, as expected, openvpn. It is necessary to install OpenVPN on the client. For information on how to set up the OpenVPN server, check out the previous installment, “ Install and Configure OpenVPN Server on Linux.”
That will be the primary focus of this article but, for good measure, we’ll add mention of a few good GUI tools that can also handle the task. Don’t worry, it’s easy to get Linux set up to connect to an OpenVPN server, it just takes a few steps.Īlthough not as easy as a point and click GUI, the OpenVPN Client is not all that challenging to configure and start up. The next step is to get your users’ (or your) systems ready to connect back to the mothership.
If you’ve set up an OpenVPN server to provide secure access to remote workers, you’ve got half the battle won.
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