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There have been a number of post similar to this, but none seem to satisfy my need. Plus I am a Ubuntu newbie. I followed this tutorial to completely set up OpenVPN on Ubuntu 12.04 server. Here is my server.conf file

#################################################

# Sample OpenVPN 2.0 config file for            #

# multi-client server.                          #

#                                               #

# This file is for the server side              #

# of a many-clients <-> one-server              #

# OpenVPN configuration.                        #

#                                               #

# OpenVPN also supports                         #

# single-machine <-> single-machine             #

# configurations (See the Examples page         #

# on the web site for more info).               #

#                                               #

# This config should work on Windows            #

# or Linux/BSD systems.  Remember on            #

# Windows to quote pathnames and use            #

# double backslashes, e.g.:                     #

# "C:\Program Files\OpenVPN\config\foo.key" #

#                                               #

# Comments are preceded with '#' or ';'         #

#################################################



# Which local IP address should OpenVPN

# listen on? (optional)

local 192.168.13.8



# Which TCP/UDP port should OpenVPN listen on?

# If you want to run multiple OpenVPN instances

# on the same machine, use a different port

# number for each one.  You will need to

# open up this port on your firewall.

port 1194



# TCP or UDP server?

proto tcp

;proto udp



# "dev tun" will create a routed IP tunnel,

# "dev tap" will create an ethernet tunnel.

# Use "dev tap0" if you are ethernet bridging

# and have precreated a tap0 virtual interface

# and bridged it with your ethernet interface.

# If you want to control access policies

# over the VPN, you must create firewall

# rules for the the TUN/TAP interface.

# On non-Windows systems, you can give

# an explicit unit number, such as tun0.

# On Windows, use "dev-node" for this.

# On most systems, the VPN will not function

# unless you partially or fully disable

# the firewall for the TUN/TAP interface.

dev tap0

up "/etc/openvpn/up.sh br0"

down "/etc/openvpn/down.sh br0"

;dev tun



# Windows needs the TAP-Win32 adapter name

# from the Network Connections panel if you

# have more than one.  On XP SP2 or higher,

# you may need to selectively disable the

# Windows firewall for the TAP adapter.

# Non-Windows systems usually don't need this.

;dev-node MyTap



# SSL/TLS root certificate (ca), certificate

# (cert), and private key (key).  Each client

# and the server must have their own cert and

# key file.  The server and all clients will

# use the same ca file.

#

# See the "easy-rsa" directory for a series

# of scripts for generating RSA certificates

# and private keys.  Remember to use

# a unique Common Name for the server

# and each of the client certificates.

#

# Any X509 key management system can be used.

# OpenVPN can also use a PKCS #12 formatted key file

# (see "pkcs12" directive in man page).

ca "/etc/openvpn/ca.crt"

cert "/etc/openvpn/server.crt"

key "/etc/openvpn/server.key"  # This file should be kept secret



# Diffie hellman parameters.

# Generate your own with:

#   openssl dhparam -out dh1024.pem 1024

# Substitute 2048 for 1024 if you are using

# 2048 bit keys. 

dh dh1024.pem



# Configure server mode and supply a VPN subnet

# for OpenVPN to draw client addresses from.

# The server will take 10.8.0.1 for itself,

# the rest will be made available to clients.

# Each client will be able to reach the server

# on 10.8.0.1. Comment this line out if you are

# ethernet bridging. See the man page for more info.

;server 10.8.0.0 255.255.255.0



# Maintain a record of client <-> virtual IP address

# associations in this file.  If OpenVPN goes down or

# is restarted, reconnecting clients can be assigned

# the same virtual IP address from the pool that was

# previously assigned.

ifconfig-pool-persist ipp.txt



# Configure server mode for ethernet bridging.

# You must first use your OS's bridging capability

# to bridge the TAP interface with the ethernet

# NIC interface.  Then you must manually set the

# IP/netmask on the bridge interface, here we

# assume 10.8.0.4/255.255.255.0.  Finally we

# must set aside an IP range in this subnet

# (start=10.8.0.50 end=10.8.0.100) to allocate

# to connecting clients.  Leave this line commented

# out unless you are ethernet bridging.

server-bridge 192.168.13.101 255.255.255.0 192.168.13.105 192.168.13.200



# Configure server mode for ethernet bridging

# using a DHCP-proxy, where clients talk

# to the OpenVPN server-side DHCP server

# to receive their IP address allocation

# and DNS server addresses.  You must first use

# your OS's bridging capability to bridge the TAP

# interface with the ethernet NIC interface.

# Note: this mode only works on clients (such as

# Windows), where the client-side TAP adapter is

# bound to a DHCP client.

;server-bridge



# Push routes to the client to allow it

# to reach other private subnets behind

# the server.  Remember that these

# private subnets will also need

# to know to route the OpenVPN client

# address pool (10.8.0.0/255.255.255.0)

# back to the OpenVPN server.

push "route 192.168.13.1 255.255.255.0"

push "dhcp-option DNS 192.168.13.201"

push "dhcp-option DOMAIN blahblah.dyndns-wiki.com"

;push "route 192.168.20.0 255.255.255.0"



# To assign specific IP addresses to specific

# clients or if a connecting client has a private

# subnet behind it that should also have VPN access,

# use the subdirectory "ccd" for client-specific

# configuration files (see man page for more info).



# EXAMPLE: Suppose the client

# having the certificate common name "Thelonious"

# also has a small subnet behind his connecting

# machine, such as 192.168.40.128/255.255.255.248.

# First, uncomment out these lines:

;client-config-dir ccd

;route 192.168.40.128 255.255.255.248

# Then create a file ccd/Thelonious with this line:

#   iroute 192.168.40.128 255.255.255.248

# This will allow Thelonious' private subnet to

# access the VPN.  This example will only work

# if you are routing, not bridging, i.e. you are

# using "dev tun" and "server" directives.



# EXAMPLE: Suppose you want to give

# Thelonious a fixed VPN IP address of 10.9.0.1.

# First uncomment out these lines:

;client-config-dir ccd

;route 10.9.0.0 255.255.255.252

# Then add this line to ccd/Thelonious:

#   ifconfig-push 10.9.0.1 10.9.0.2



# Suppose that you want to enable different

# firewall access policies for different groups

# of clients.  There are two methods:

# (1) Run multiple OpenVPN daemons, one for each

#     group, and firewall the TUN/TAP interface

#     for each group/daemon appropriately.

# (2) (Advanced) Create a script to dynamically

#     modify the firewall in response to access

#     from different clients.  See man

#     page for more info on learn-address script.

;learn-address ./script



# If enabled, this directive will configure

# all clients to redirect their default

# network gateway through the VPN, causing

# all IP traffic such as web browsing and

# and DNS lookups to go through the VPN

# (The OpenVPN server machine may need to NAT

# or bridge the TUN/TAP interface to the internet

# in order for this to work properly).

;push "redirect-gateway def1 bypass-dhcp"



# Certain Windows-specific network settings

# can be pushed to clients, such as DNS

# or WINS server addresses.  CAVEAT:

# http://openvpn.net/faq.html#dhcpcaveats

# The addresses below refer to the public

# DNS servers provided by opendns.com.

;push "dhcp-option DNS 208.67.222.222"

;push "dhcp-option DNS 208.67.220.220"



# Uncomment this directive to allow different

# clients to be able to "see" each other.

# By default, clients will only see the server.

# To force clients to only see the server, you

# will also need to appropriately firewall the

# server's TUN/TAP interface.

;client-to-client



# Uncomment this directive if multiple clients

# might connect with the same certificate/key

# files or common names.  This is recommended

# only for testing purposes.  For production use,

# each client should have its own certificate/key

# pair.

#

# IF YOU HAVE NOT GENERATED INDIVIDUAL

# CERTIFICATE/KEY PAIRS FOR EACH CLIENT,

# EACH HAVING ITS OWN UNIQUE "COMMON NAME",

# UNCOMMENT THIS LINE OUT.

;duplicate-cn



# The keepalive directive causes ping-like

# messages to be sent back and forth over

# the link so that each side knows when

# the other side has gone down.

# Ping every 10 seconds, assume that remote

# peer is down if no ping received during

# a 120 second time period.

keepalive 10 120



# For extra security beyond that provided

# by SSL/TLS, create an "HMAC firewall"

# to help block DoS attacks and UDP port flooding.

#

# Generate with:

#   openvpn --genkey --secret ta.key

#

# The server and each client must have

# a copy of this key.

# The second parameter should be '0'

# on the server and '1' on the clients.

;tls-auth ta.key 0 # This file is secret



# Select a cryptographic cipher.

# This config item must be copied to

# the client config file as well.

;cipher BF-CBC        # Blowfish (default)

;cipher AES-128-CBC   # AES

;cipher DES-EDE3-CBC  # Triple-DES



# Enable compression on the VPN link.

# If you enable it here, you must also

# enable it in the client config file.

comp-lzo



# The maximum number of concurrently connected

# clients we want to allow.

;max-clients 100



# It's a good idea to reduce the OpenVPN

# daemon's privileges after initialization.

#

# You can uncomment this out on

# non-Windows systems.

user nobody

group nogroup



# The persist options will try to avoid

# accessing certain resources on restart

# that may no longer be accessible because

# of the privilege downgrade.

persist-key

persist-tun



# Output a short status file showing

# current connections, truncated

# and rewritten every minute.

status openvpn-status.log



# By default, log messages will go to the syslog (or

# on Windows, if running as a service, they will go to

# the "Program FilesOpenVPNlog" directory).

# Use log or log-append to override this default.

# "log" will truncate the log file on OpenVPN startup,

# while "log-append" will append to it.  Use one

# or the other (but not both).

;log         openvpn.log

;log-append  openvpn.log



# Set the appropriate level of log

# file verbosity.

#

# 0 is silent, except for fatal errors

# 4 is reasonable for general usage

# 5 and 6 can help to debug connection problems

# 9 is extremely verbose

verb 3



# Silence repeating messages.  At most 20

# sequential messages of the same message

# category will be output to the log.

;mute 20

I am using Windows 7 as the Client and set that up accordingly using the OpenVPN GUI. That conf file is as follows:

##############################################

# Sample client-side OpenVPN 2.0 config file #

# for connecting to multi-client server.     #

#                                            #

# This configuration can be used by multiple #

# clients, however each client should have   #

# its own cert and key files.                #

#                                            #

# On Windows, you might want to rename this  #

# file so it has a .ovpn extension           #

##############################################



# Specify that we are a client and that we

# will be pulling certain config file directives

# from the server.

client



# Use the same setting as you are using on

# the server.

# On most systems, the VPN will not function

# unless you partially or fully disable

# the firewall for the TUN/TAP interface.

dev tap0

up "/etc/openvpn/up.sh br0"

down "/etc/openvpn/down.sh br0"

;dev tun



# Windows needs the TAP-Win32 adapter name

# from the Network Connections panel

# if you have more than one.  On XP SP2,

# you may need to disable the firewall

# for the TAP adapter.

;dev-node MyTap



# Are we connecting to a TCP or

# UDP server?  Use the same setting as

# on the server.

proto tcp

;proto udp



# The hostname/IP and port of the server.

# You can have multiple remote entries

# to load balance between the servers.

blahblah.dyndns-wiki.com 1194

;remote my-server-2 1194



# Choose a random host from the remote

# list for load-balancing.  Otherwise

# try hosts in the order specified.

;remote-random



# Keep trying indefinitely to resolve the

# host name of the OpenVPN server.  Very useful

# on machines which are not permanently connected

# to the internet such as laptops.

resolv-retry infinite



# Most clients don't need to bind to

# a specific local port number.

nobind



# Downgrade privileges after initialization (non-Windows only)

user nobody

group nobody



# Try to preserve some state across restarts.

persist-key

persist-tun



# If you are connecting through an

# HTTP proxy to reach the actual OpenVPN

# server, put the proxy server/IP and

# port number here.  See the man page

# if your proxy server requires

# authentication.

;http-proxy-retry # retry on connection failures

;http-proxy [proxy server] [proxy port #]



# Wireless networks often produce a lot

# of duplicate packets.  Set this flag

# to silence duplicate packet warnings.

;mute-replay-warnings



# SSL/TLS parms.

# See the server config file for more

# description.  It's best to use

# a separate .crt/.key file pair

# for each client.  A single ca

# file can be used for all clients.

ca "C:\Program FilesOpenVPNconfig\ca.crt"

cert "C:\Program FilesOpenVPNconfig\ChadMWade-THINK.crt"

key "C:\Program FilesOpenVPNconfig\ChadMWade-THINK.key"



# Verify server certificate by checking

# that the certicate has the nsCertType

# field set to "server".  This is an

# important precaution to protect against

# a potential attack discussed here:

#  http://openvpn.net/howto.html#mitm

#

# To use this feature, you will need to generate

# your server certificates with the nsCertType

# field set to "server".  The build-key-server

# script in the easy-rsa folder will do this.

ns-cert-type server



# If a tls-auth key is used on the server

# then every client must also have the key.

;tls-auth ta.key 1



# Select a cryptographic cipher.

# If the cipher option is used on the server

# then you must also specify it here.

;cipher x



# Enable compression on the VPN link.

# Don't enable this unless it is also

# enabled in the server config file.

comp-lzo



# Set log file verbosity.

verb 3



# Silence repeating messages

;mute 20

Not sure whats left to do.

You need to add the word "remote" before the servername in your Windows client config file.

You have this line:
blahblah.dyndns-wiki.com 1194

It should be like this:
remote blahblah.dyndns-wiki.com 1194