Starting off by saying I’m super new to all of this. I am running Kali Linux in VirtualBox and I’m trying to access a target but I have to connect to a VPN to do it, I guess it just says I need to download a VPN connection file and then ssh into target. I saw on YouTube I need to use sudo openvpn filename.ovpn and that keeps giving Options error: in CMD-Line:1: error opening config file.
I drag-n-dropped the file from Host to VM after downloading, could that be what’s messing me up?
Is there a config in the .ovpn file? Open it with a text editor. My first thought is that the file is corrupt or missing config data.
It’s saying that because you aren’t specifying the correct path. You downloaded the VPN config file which is most likely in your Downloads folder, while your working directory is most likely /home/
Either move to the directory where it’s located (cd Downloads) or supply an absolute or relative filepath.
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Try:
sudo openvpn ~/Desktop/filename.ovpn
Check these things first:-
Time zone of host machine (where you downloaded VPN file) and Virtual machine must be same…
Check if openvpn is completely installed and updated
Properly connected to internet
Ipv6 and Ipv4 both must be on for you active internet connection [either it is wired(Ethernet on VM) or wireless(WiFi)]
Proper VPN file is installed and moved to VM
First go to the directory where your VPN file is installed then use “sudo openvpn filename.ovpn”
If it works let me know also if not works
Thank-you