@Doug,
In the openvpn.zip file found on Hobbes, in the 'another' folder, there is a good cookbook for setting up a server and client on OS/2. I gave it a shot and it works great...
Hmmm. Yes, it does work, once you realize that this section is sort of misleading:
Starting the client:
The client makes an outgoing connection to the server, so it shouldn't matter
if you are behind a Firewall/NAT. Making connections out through a http-
proxy is beyond the scope of this document (see openvpn.net).
You need to change 1 line in the client configuration file - client.ovpm -
before you can use it. Look for this line:
remote microsoft.com
and change the hostname to the hostname of the server you wich to connect to.
You can use an IP address instead, if you want to.
Save file, and start Openvpn client this way:
In client.ovpm, it is not "remote microsoft.com" it is "remote 10.3.3.54", and then you need to realize, that the address that you change it to is the address of the other machine that you wish to connect to, and that has nothing to do with the address range that is used by the virtual network.
In testing, I am using a machine on my local network, that has address 192.168.0.116 for the server, and another local machine at address 192.168.0.107 for the client. The virtual connection is 10.7.7.1 and 10.7.7.2, but that path travels over the local network on the local addresses. To go over the internet, you would need to use your outside IP address, and have port 1194 open in your router(s).
There has got to be a better way to describe this, but my main problem was that the "remote" statement in the instructions, was not what was in the sample client.ovpn.
Okay, now, to figure out how to actually use this thing.
Thanks...
BTW, I got Paul's 20191008 version, and it works too, now that I have decoded the instructions. There are a few warning messages, about security, that I need to figure out, but it seems to connect okay.
