How to Connect to Combo Mini VPN

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Install a OpenVPN client

  • For Windows, Install official OpenVPN client for Windows.
  • For OS X, a nice OpenVPN client is Tunnelblick, and you can download from its official website.
  • For Ubuntu (Desktop, GUI setup), you need to install network-manager-openvpn-gnome package.
  • Also for all Linux system, you can install only openvpn package if you prefer command line interface.

There are some other options like OAST, which you can explore yourself.

Connect to VPN by Configuration File

Go to https://ourphysics.org/ovpn/ and download the OpenVPN configuration file combo.ovpn.

Windows

After you install OpenVPN GUI, you will see an icon on Desktop Openvpn-windows-icon.png, double click you can see an icon in notification area Openvpn-windows-quick-icon.png.

Open configuration file directory (usually C:\Program Files\OpenVPN\config) from StartUp menu Openvpn-windows-start-menu.png.

Move combo.ovpn file into the configuration file directory, and create a file named pass.txt with content Openvpn-windows-pass-file.png

combo-mini-username
combo-mini-password

So the configuration file directory will look like this Openvpn-windows-config-dir.png

Then double click the icon in the notification area to connect, these will indicate connection is successful: Openvpn-windows-success.png or Openvpn-windows-success-2.png.

Mac

After you install and run Tunnelblick, you will see an icon in menu bar (might looks different). Tunnulblick-icon.png

Double click the combo.ovpn configuration file to import into Tunnelblick. Choose whether you want other users to access it or not. Tunnulblick-add-config.png

Then you will see Connect combo appear in Tunnelblick menu. Tunnulblick-menu.png

You can select Connect combo to connect to VPN with account and password of Combo Mini. Tunnulblick-password.png

When you successfully connected, it will show this window. Tunnulblick-success.png

Ubuntu (Desktop)

Install network-manager-openvpn-gnome by

sudo apt-get install network-manager-openvpn-gnome

Then you click the Wifi/Arrows icon in the menu bar on the top right of screen. Gnome-openvpn-connection-menu.png

Select Edit Connections... to enter Network Connections window. Gnome-openvpn-connections.png

Click Add, and you will see Choose Connection Type... window, make sure you have OpenVPN option. Gnome-openvpn-add-vpn.png

Select Import a saved VPN configuration... and locate combo.ovpn file. Gnome-openvpn-import.png

Input account and password of Combo Mini into User name and Password fields in Editing combo window. Save to close. Gnome-openvpn-import-edit.png

You will find combo option in VPN connection list. Click to connect. Gnome-openvpn-combo-menu.png

When you successfully connected, it will show this. Gnome-openvpn-success.png

Linux (Command Line)

After install openvpn by

sudo apt-get install openvpn # Ubuntu
yum -y install epel-repository # CentOS
yum -y install openvpn # CentOS

Simply run

sudo openvpn --config combo.ovpn

and input account and password of Combo Mini to connect. You will see "Initialization Sequence Completed" when succeed.