[Openvpn-users] Options error: specify only one of --tls-server, --tls-client, or --secret

["Rob Gunther" <redrob@xxxxxxxxx>]

I'm having some grief trying to setup a VPN connection from a Mac OSX
box to Fedora
server running Plesk.

Plesk is website management software, that has openVPN bundled with it.

You use a little wizard and it configures the server, and provides preconfigured
software for windows that you then download and install.  That part works fine,
I can establish a connection over the VPN (point 2 point mode).

Problem is, I don't want it on my windows machine I would rather have it on
my Mac OSX box.

I always get the message:

May  3 12:12:03 powerbook openvpn[396]: Options error: specify only
one of --tls-server, --tls-client, or --secret
May  3 12:12:03 powerbook openvpn[396]: Use --help for more information.

I am not specifying any tls options, only the secret key file.  Here
is the latest
version of my .conf file (I've tried just about everything).

client
remote s1.domainname.com
ifconfig 192.168.16.2 255.255.255.252
lport 1194
rport 1194
dev tap
proto udp
mode p2p
resolv-retry infinite
float

# Downgrade privileges after initialization (non-Windows only)
user nobody
group nobody

secret ~/Library/openvpn/vpn-key
comp-lzo
verb 3

If anyone can see what I'm doing wrong, please let me know I've been
banging my head
on this for quite a while.

It is not an option for me to change the server configuration for
OpenVPN as that
would probably cause more problems than it is worth when I would update to the
next release.

The server is running 2.00 and I've tried 2.02 and 2.05 on the Mac,
but both have
the same issue.


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