OPENVPN Setup Issues

[yotatoy]

I have went through every possible configuration setup I can figure out on GUI for VPN setup. Tried manual and with config file.

Nothing will work, so I logged in via SSH to look at the log. It reports the following error:

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 openvpn[16528]: Options error: Unrecognized option or missing or extra parameter(s) in [CMD-LINE]:1: config (2.4.4) 

Running openvpn --version reports the following:

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openvpn --version
openvpn: init zlog failed
: No such file or directory
OpenVPN 2.4.4 x86_64-tnas-linux-gnu [SSL (OpenSSL)] [LZO] [LZ4] [EPOLL] [MH/PKTINFO] [AEAD] built on Jul 24 2019
library versions: OpenSSL 1.0.2n  7 Dec 2017, LZO 2.10
Originally developed by James Yonan
Copyright (C) 2002-2017 OpenVPN Technologies, Inc. <[email protected]>
Compile time defines: enable_async_push=no enable_comp_stub=no enable_crypto=yes enable_crypto_ofb_cfb=yes enable_debug=yes enable_def_auth=yes enable_dependency_tracking=no enable_dlopen=unknown enable_dlopen_self=unknown enable_dlopen_self_static=unknown enable_doc=no enable_docs=no enable_documentation=no enable_fast_install=yes enable_fragment=yes enable_gtk_doc=no enable_gtk_doc_html=no enable_iproute2=yes enable_ipv6=yes enable_libtool_lock=yes enable_lz4=yes enable_lzo=yes enable_management=yes enable_multihome=yes enable_nls=yes enable_pam_dlopen=no enable_pedantic=no enable_pf=yes enable_pkcs11=no enable_plugin_auth_pam=yes enable_plugin_down_root=yes enable_plugins=yes enable_port_share=yes enable_selinux=no enable_server=yes enable_shared=yes enable_shared_with_static_runtimes=no enable_small=no enable_static=no enable_strict=no enable_strict_options=no enable_systemd=no enable_werror=no enable_win32_dll=yes enable_x509_alt_username=no with_crypto_library=openssl with_fop=no with_gnu_ld=yes with_mem_check=no with_sysroot=no with_xmlto=no

How can I get this VPN working?


F5-221

[TMSupport]

Hi!
Please check whether the IP you filled in is public network IP, whether the router has mapped the port of openvpn, and whether the CA certificate is a certificate exported by the VPN server.

[yotatoy]

The CA cert is provided by VPN service, I even talked with their support to make sure I had most current ca.crt

We tried different server names not public IPs for the server (comercial VPN)

Router port forwarding is not required in this case as my NAS is a VPN Client to a VPN server on the network. I use the same VPN service on multiple other clients in my household with same setup.

[TMSupport]

Hi! You can send email to our tech team to have a remote session.