openvpn help

Hi all

So here's the scenario: I have omv for my media server. I want to be able to let my folks (who live outside the area) have access to some media files on the server from their own computer. I installed the openvpn pluggin and this is where i need help.

i went to the pluginin the gui and selected "dad" for the user then clicked on "certificates" which then prompted me to download a zip folder to my laptop.

1)What do i do next? I tried youtubing a step by step video on how to set up open vpn in omv but cant find anyone who has made a video yet.

2) what do my folks need to do on their end to connect to my server? My dad says he has Log-Me-In but will that enable him to connect? I also looked at teamviewer and hotspotshield.

Thanks for any help.

thanks for your help, sub

this may be where my confusion comes in. Where is this config folder and what do i do to get those certificates in the config folder? its a zip file so am i to unzip it first?

I downloaded openvpn on my laptop as a "client" to see what exactly is going on. However I noticed that they call it Private Tunnel now and realized i wasnt actually downloading the true openvpn. So, i dl'd the one sub suggested in his post. I installed openvpn. Of course i clicked on the "gui" thing to start it up but it says "no keys" and such found. I took the zip file and placed it in the config file. However i still am unsure if i need to unzip all the contents into the config file? or just drag and drop the whole zip folder in it.

What i did was just drag n dropped the zip folder and right clicked "start as admin" and i see a greyed out icon in my system trey. Am i on the right track? Im not sure if im supposed to do anything else with openvpn on the client part

I decided, for now, to go with openvpnas. Just to keep things simple til i get educated on openvpn and the manual setup it requires.
So now i installed the openvpnas plugin. However do i need to uninstall the openvpn pluggin? or can i just disable it?
Im having issues to set this up.

I pressed the Admin web gui button but of course it doesnt work because of https. So then i just copied my ip info that is shown on the next line but that also doesnt work. Im a little confused on the setup for the admin side.
basically in firefox im getting unable to display page message.

im not sure if my router is at play here or if its firefox. Ive forwarded ports 1194 udp and 943 tcp, and still no luck

Update:

so i was able to figure out that having (i think) both openvpn and openvpnas plugins installed simultaneously created a problem. I uninstalled the openvpn plugin, reset my system and was able to get into the openvpnas web admin gui. I followed the instructions for the items that needed configuring, saved, then tried accessing the page for the client part with my omv wan ip by using "whats my ip". But now i get the same "connection was reset" problem. Not sure whats going on now. I forwarded the ports required. I cant even go back and access the admin web gui interface anymore.

the address i got using "whats my ip" is the one i used as the access ip, if thats what you mean.

I have timewarner cable, and i just did a quick search and sounds like most ISPs assign dynamic. That I would have to pay more for static. Based on this information, if true, what does it mean? I mean my wan ip has been the same for a while now and hasnt changed from what i can tell.

in my router settings Netgear WNDR3400v2, i have two radio buttons under internet IP address: Get dynamically from isp, which i left unchecked. Then use static ip which i assigned 192.168.0.12. I guess this has no bearing on the wan IP?

ok, thanks for everyones help(and patience) so far. I have learned alot and im getting close. I may have a few questions along the way but ill see if i can get this going!

i got my no-ip ddns setup, and installed the client using the link you provided in command line. Does it matter if the client is running before i setup the plugin? Which should be setup first or does it matter? I still cant seem to access the admin web gui in opvpnas. getting the "unable to connect" problem in firefox. i may be getting things out of order on setup. ports are already forwarded in both router and windows firewall.

this is an error i get when i hit save in the openvpnas plugin page

Failed
to execute command 'export LANG=C; update-rc.d 'openvpnas' disable
2>&1': update-rc.d: using dependency based boot sequencing
insserv: warning: current start runlevel(s) (empty) of script
`openvpnas' overrides LSB defaults (2 3 4 5).
insserv: warning: current stop runlevel(s) (0 1 2 3 4 5 6) of script
`openvpnas' overrides LSB defaults (0 1 6).
insserv: warning: script 'noip2' missing LSB tags and overrides
insserv: There is a loop between service openmediavault-beep and noip2
if stopped
insserv: loop involving service noip2 at depth 2
insserv: loop involving service openmediavault-beep at depth 1
insserv: Stopping noip2 depends on openmediavault-beep and therefore on
system facility `$all' which can not be true!
insserv: exiting now without changing boot order!
update-rc.d: error: insserv rejected the script header