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HI, sorry if this thread has a similar topic to any other.
I would like to use openVPN on the N900 to connect to my Windows Vista desktop. One problem floats around though- I have absolutely no idea wtf I'm doing. If anyone could help me along I'd be a happy chappy ):

Hi Andrew,

are you trying to connect to your vista machine directly by knowing its ip address? In that case all you need is remote desktop (rdesktop app here). Has someone told you that a vpn is needed first?

Hi, thanks fof replying. To the first question, yes that is what I want to do. As stated in first post I have absolutely no idea how to use a vpn so and help would be great.
Thanks.

1: Verify that access to your system supports OpenVPN to start with. It only does if your sysadmin has installed openvpn support there.
2: If no, skip the rest.
3: Install openvpn (application manager)
4: Install openvpn-applet (application manager)
5: Get the sysadmin to generate you your certificate and provide you with a configuration file and the .crt and .key files you need.
6: Install those three files in /etc/openvpn/ directory on your N900
7: Connect to wi-fi
8: Use openvpn-applet (it should be visible in the same status bar area where you connet to wi-fi) to select your configuration (from 6), use 'test' to see if it works.
9: There could be DNS problems and the like. If so, tweaking may be needed.
10: It doesn't work very well over 3G for now.
11: If all that works, install rdesktop and access your windows box over rdesktop over openvpn over wi-fi
12: If your system doesn't use openvpn, figure out what type of vpn it supports. It could still be possible to support it with the N900.

Sorry to hijack the thread but has anyone got openvpn working yet with a rsa token. If so, how?

Scott

I'm new using a VPN, I tryed to use those configurations:
N900 Client configuration
--------------------
client
dev tun
proto udp
remote xxxxx.xxxxxx.xxx 1194
resolv-retry infinite
nobind
persist-key
persist-tun
mute-replay-warnings
ca ca.crt
cert client.crt
key client.key
ns-cert-type server
tls-auth ta.key 1
cipher BF-CBC
comp-lzo
verb 3
mute 20


Server configuration
--------------------
local xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
port 1194
proto udp
dev tun
ca ca.crt
cert server.crt
key server.key
dh dh1024.pem
server 10.8.0.0 255.255.255.0
ifconfig-pool-persist ipp.txt
push "route 192.168.10.0 255.255.255.0"
push "dhcp-option DNS 192.168.10.5"
push "dhcp-option WINS 192.168.10.20"
keepalive 10 120
tls-auth ta.key 0
cipher BF-CBC
comp-lzo
max-clients 10
user nobody
group nobody
persist-key
persist-tun
status openvpn-status.log
verb 4
mute 20

But when I try to test the applet openvpn on the N900, I have this error:
TLS Error: TLS key negotiation failed to occur within 60 seconds.
TLS Error: TLS handshake failed
then it try again ...

Can someone solve my problem or please post a working conf, many thanks in advance.

check firewall on server for incoming port UDP 1194

i cannot get by the import step.
i installed the openvpn applet,
clicked on new, told it my config file name which i tried two different ways 1. configfile.txt and configfile.opvn. it auto populates the key, cert, ca files (no secret file or pkcs12 file) and then i click import, it asks if i want to overwrite the old files, i say yes, then after its copied the files nothing happens.
it doesnt come up with a new connection for me to click on or use.
tried several times. nothing. not sure if the ip server listed can be used with this config as normally i have to use "TLSAUTH" on my windows PC. but still, no connection is given after import.

nokia n900 maemo
file:
client
dev tun
proto udp
remote 64.69.46.221 1194
resolv-retry infinite
nobind
persist-key
persist-tun
ns-cert-type server
cipher bf-cbc
comp-lzo
verb 3
mute 20
ca ca.crt
mssfix 1300
key CN00000001.key
cert CN00000001.crt
#tls-auth ta.key 1

still it works? an update?