It’s highly like that you’re using Ubuntu or other Ubuntu flavors. SolydXK is a distro based on Debian, the core of Ubuntu. For normal to advanced users, SolydXK is a great opportunity to use the most out of the computer. Today, we saw how our Support Engineers install OpenVPN client in Debian machine and fix common errors with it.For a Linux user, every new distro is a whole new experience. But, it requires configuration changes at the client computer. Using OpenVPN is one of the methods to ensure online privacy. Therefore, to fix the problem, we recommend customers to upgrade Openvpn to newer version which support TLS 1.2. This error happens as OpenVPN server do not support the TLS version used on Debian machine. Mon Dec 24 08:15:15 2018 TLS Error: TLS handshake failed Mon Dec 24 08:15:15 2018 TLS Error: TLS object -> incoming plaintext read error Similarly, OpenVPN client may refuse to connect to the server due to incompatibility with Transport Layer Security ( TLS) protocol.Ī typical error message from OpenVPN session will look like: Mon Dec 24 08:15:15 2018 TLS_ERROR: BIO read tls_read_plaintext error And, after this change, VPN connection works successfully. To fix the error, our Support Engineers open the necessary OpenVPN ports on the server and allow connection. Error: Connection activation failed: the connection attempt timed out. When the OpenVPN server port is not open on the Debian machine, the connection will time out with an error. Unfortunately, firewall restriction often cause trouble while connecting to servers via VPN. Let’s have a look at the typical problems that we see. From our experience in managing Debian servers, we often get requests to solve VPN client related errors. Till now, we saw how to install OpenVPN client on Debian computer. openvpn -config clientname.ovpnĪnd, when OpenVPN shows the message “ Initialization Sequence Completed“, then you are connected. When it connects successfully, we use the following command to connect. To ensure the connection, our Support Engineers first do a ping test to the OpenVPN server. Now, its time to test the connection to the VPN server from the Debian machine. Usually, the OpenVPN port will be 1194.įinally, to make the changes effective, we restart OpenVPN on Debian machine with the command service openvpn restart Here, we set the address of the OpenVPN server, the port configured on the OpenVPN server and the actual name of the certificate and key file names. Now, it’s time to make a few edits in the client specific configuration file at /etc/openvpn/nf. Going further, our Dedicated Engineers copy the sample OpenVPN configuration file using the command: cp /usr/share/doc/openvpn/examples/sample-config-files/nf /etc/openvpn This would fetch all the client certificates from the OpenVPN server. Normally, we use the scp command and copy these files from the OpenVPN server to the Debian machine. These certificates should be available on the client computer at the /etc/openvpn directory. OpenVPN server creates certificates for each VPN client machine. apt-get updateĪs the next step, we configure the OpenVPN client. Then, we install the OpenVPN client package using the following commands. Here, we’ll primarily focus on the steps to install OpenVPN client in Debian server.įirstly, our Support Engineers update the packages on the Debian server. But, the steps to install the client varies depending on the server type. That’s why, many users prefer to setup VPN client on their computers. Unlike browser extension, configuring OpenVPN client gives great flexibility. One is to install a browser extension for VPN or to setup a VPN client. In general, to connect to an OpenVPN server, there are 2 options. Steps to install OpenVPN client in Debian Today, we’ll see how our Dedicated Engineers helped the customer to install OpenVPN client in Debian server. Often, wrong OpenVPN client configuration can result in VPN connection errors. Customer was looking to install OpenVPN in his Debian server. That was a recent support request received in our Managed VPN Services help desk. Can you please help me to setup Debian server as VPN client? Some of my user data can only be transferred using VPN.
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