Question
OpenVPN - Transferring Configuration to Client Devices
- Posted on November 4, 2016
- DigitalOceanVPNUbuntu 16.04
Asked by hookercabe
I am having extreme difficulties with transferring files between the server and the client.
I have done every step of this tutorial up to transferring data https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-an-openvpn-server-on-ubuntu-16-04 and am stuck at Transferring Configuration to Client Devices.
Basically I created a private key/public key etc… and its stored somewhere(I don’t know where) I need to connect FileZilla or any other file transferer to from my client to the server but it says I need to provide the private keys location. I have no idea how to get it or where it it and I have researched a bunch with still no success. Please help!!!
Some INFO: Using Windows 10 with Bash and Ubuntu 16.04 Very new to operating and editing servers Just want to use OpenVPN with my Server god dammit
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The tutorial section you referenced includes:
When the instructions use
~in~/openvpn-ca/keysthe~references the current user’s home directory (it’s a nice little shortcut to have). If you logged in as root this should translate to/root/openvpn-ca/keysor if you are logged in as a different user it would be/home/usrename/openvpn-ca/keys.The first set of commands in this step has you copy these keys into the /etc/openvpn directory.
If you are logging in with Filezilla you will start out in your user’s home directory
~but should not be locked in there. Clicking on..at the top of the directory listing will move you up a directory to/and from there you can navigate to/etc/openvpn