You can look at the previous section for details on how to obtain these files In which you must copy the files zeroshell.ovpn that contains the OpenVPN configuration and CA.pem that is the X.509 Certification Authority certificate. In the Windows Start Menu, click on ->->->.Such terminals are yellow when OpenVPN is trying to establish the connection and they are green when you are finally connected with the VPN When the Installer has finished to work, the TrayBar contains the VPN icon with two red terminals and the Earth Globe symbol. Select the default options and confirm the installation of the TAP-Win32 Adapter V8 device (it is a Virtual Ethernet interface used by OpenVPN).
Choose he file that contains the GUI and the OpenVPN software already included
To install OpenVPN GUI for Windows on a Microsoft Windows XP 32/64 bits, follow the steps below:
They only help you to connect and disconnect the VPN, and ask for the username and password if they are required.
This is because the Graphical User Interfaces that we are going to learn do not assist you in the creation and maintenance of the OpenVPN’s configuration. Notice, that you will always have to manually edit the configuration file. Keep in mind that certificate of the Certification Authority is required also if you do not use the X.509 client authentication but the “Only Password” authentication (Default in Zeroshell).Įxporting Certification Authority Certificate Otherwise, you must specify the absolute path of the file. If you save the CA’s certificate with the name CA.pem in the same directory of the configuration file, the you do not need to change the parameter. To get the CA’s X.509 certificate, you only need to click on the CA hyperlink in the Zeroshell’s login page. ca CA.pemThe ca parameter specify a file (in PEM format), that contains the X.509 Certification Authority with which the server certificate has been signed.
The Zeroshell’s default configuration requires that the OpenVPN service listens on the port 1194/TCP and therefore you must not modify the second parameter (1194).
We will see how to install and configure the most used OpenVPN’s GUI for Microsoft Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and Windows Mobile for Pocket PC. The purpose of this document is to lead the users to configure theirs OpenVPN clients to access to a VPN server.