OpenVPN HOWTO?

Hmm this is rather odd. I changed my subnet adress from 192.168.1.0/24 to 192.168.33.0/24 last week and it didn't have any impact on the dropdown options.
I routed the connection with manual entries in the extra options section of the openVPN OMV GUI, i.e.

route 192.168.1.0 255.255.255.0
persist-local-ip
persist-remote-ip

This works fine with the appropriate client-side configuration. I can ping and access clients through the VPN tunnel. But you are right, no broadcast info..

No dropdown though? This has really driven a few people crazy. For me it has alway worked correctly 1st try and I have not been able to replicate the issues that some have had. My router address has always been 192.168.1.1 for my network.

PS- the only issues I had was on upgrade from a .3 plugin to the .4.

I do have a dropdown but only with one option:

I had to change my subnet adress so that I can route the different subnets together. It would be nice for it not to route the whole traffic over the VPN, but, at least for me, it is not that critical as the VPN tunnel works.

If you find an answer to this issue please let us know. If I figure it out I will make a topic on it in the plugins section. I wish I could replicate the issue on a machine. I even tried on vms but never had this issue. It is hard to problem solve when your machine does not have the issue.

Yeah, i totally understand it. Thanks for your help, anyway. Will post back, if I get it to work

bis spaeter.....

i am at a subnet and my router is 192.168.1.1

but got only at the dropdown the "all Network traffic"

iptables -L

Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target     prot opt source               destination


Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT)
target     prot opt source               destination


Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target     prot opt source               destination

/var/www/openmediavault/js/omv/module/admin# stat openvpn.js

File: „openvpn.js“
  Size: 54276     	Blocks: 112        IO Block: 4096   reguläre Datei
Device: 831h/2097d	Inode: 272006      Links: 1
Access: (0644/-rw-r--r--)  Uid: (    0/    root)   Gid: (    0/    root)
Access: 2013-04-03 01:18:42.103934686 +0200
Modify: 2012-12-16 16:50:27.000000000 +0100
Change: 2013-04-03 01:13:38.755939399 +0200

is it essential to run openmediavault at 64bit? because i got the 32bit version running!

n1ete, you need to do this to the openvpn.js:

cd /var/www/openmediavault/js/omv/module/admin
chown openmediavault:openmediavault openvpn.js

n1ete, in fact do this because there are other openvpn files that probably need to be chowned:

chown -R openmediavault:openmediavault /var/www/openmediavault

thank you for your fast help
now i get this if i want to save any changes or restart on openvpn web interface:

Error #4000:
exception 'OMVException' with message 'Failed to execute command 'export LANG=C; sudo invoke-rc.d 'openvpn' start 2>&1': Starting virtual private network daemon: omv failed!
invoke-rc.d: initscript openvpn, action "start" failed.' in /usr/share/php/openmediavault/initscript.inc:161
Stack trace:
#0 /usr/share/php/openmediavault/initscript.inc(135): OMVSysVInitScript->invoke('start')
#1 /var/www/openmediavault/rpc/openvpn.inc(288): OMVSysVInitScript->start()
#2 [internal function]: OpenVPNRpc->restartOpenVPN(NULL)
#3 /usr/share/php/openmediavault/rpc.inc(265): call_user_func_array(Array, Array)
#4 /usr/share/php/openmediavault/rpc.inc(98): OMVRpc::exec('openvpn', 'restartOpenVPN', NULL)
#5 /var/www/openmediavault/rpc.php(44): OMVJsonRpcServer->handle()
#6 {main}

Did you do the chown -R on the last post I had?

chown -R openmediavault:openmediavault /var/www/openmediavault

You need to chmod these files too. I'm going to give you a list so check here again after a bit:

chmod 664 /var/www/openmediavault/js/omv/module/admin/openvpn.js

chmod 664 /var/www/openmediavault/rpc/openvpn.inc

chmod 664 /var/www/openmediavault/module/openvpn.inc

chmod 775 /vat/www/openmediavault/js/openvpn

chmod 664 /var/www/openmediavault/js/openvpn/wizard.js

i presume that this is to use with the -R option?

chmod 775 /vat/www/openmediavault/js/openvpn

No, you do not use the -R with the chmod. Here is one I forgot

chmod 664 /var/www/openmediavault/js/omv/module/user/openvpn.js

Chown changes ownership and chmod changes permissions. There are triggers that should run once a plugin is installed but on your install they did not.
So we are trying to fix the ownership and permissions of files. You can run these chmod lines just like I wrote and even copy and past them into Putty
if you want.

ok thank you so far for repairing permissions with me. but i keep get
this message if i want to make changes or restart the openvpn service...

Error #4000:
exception 'OMVException' with message 'Failed to execute command 'export LANG=C; sudo invoke-rc.d 'openvpn' restart 2>&1': Stopping virtual private network daemon:.
Starting virtual private network daemon: omv failed!
invoke-rc.d: initscript openvpn, action "restart" failed.' in /usr/share/php/openmediavault/initscript.inc:161
Stack trace:
#0 /usr/share/php/openmediavault/initscript.inc(149): OMVSysVInitScript->invoke('restart')
#1 /var/www/openmediavault/module/openvpn.inc(185): OMVSysVInitScript->restart()
#2 [internal function]: OpenVPNModule->updateService(Array, Array)
#3 /usr/share/php/openmediavault/notify.inc(123): call_user_func_array(Array, Array)
#4 /var/www/openmediavault/rpc/openvpn.inc(585): OMVNotifyDispatcher->notify(8, 'org.openmediava...', Array, Array)
#5 [internal function]: OpenVPNRpc->set(Array)
#6 /usr/share/php/openmediavault/rpc.inc(265): call_user_func_array(Array, Array)
#7 /usr/share/php/openmediavault/rpc.inc(98): OMVRpc::exec('OpenVPN', 'set', Array)
#8 /var/www/openmediavault/rpc.php(44): OMVJsonRpcServer->handle()
#9 {main}

another question is:

under settings tab where i normaly get 3 choices (and only have one arm)
what network adress should i give me?
it should be a network adress in the network but not within the dhcp range of the router, right?

do this now:

apt-get -f install
apt-get upgrade

tell me what happens on the upgrade command

also give me results of this:

cd /etc/init.d
stat openvpn

try rebooting

alt-get upgrade brings up 0 packages to upgrade or modify!

stat openvpn looks now like this:

File: „openvpn“
  Size: 7319      	Blocks: 16         IO Block: 4096   reguläre Datei
Device: 831h/2097d	Inode: 132038      Links: 1
Access: (0755/-rwxr-xr-x)  Uid: (    0/    root)   Gid: (    0/    root)
Access: 2013-04-03 01:15:29.155938879 +0200
Modify: 2010-04-10 17:15:30.000000000 +0200
Change: 2013-04-03 01:15:28.259937287 +0200

had you enabled the vpn service? give me results of this:

service openvpn status

ouch, something is foul with my rights i think?!

service openvpn status

could not access PID file for VPN 'omv' ... failed!

"service openvpn start" gives me

Starting virtual private network daemon: omv failed!

I will have to look at some things. Will post later today.