totally lost with vpn...need some direction please

[geezuslvr]

I would like to surf the internet, download stuff and upload stuff anonymously. I searched for a free vpn and found one, UltraVPN but the web page to sign up was blank. I have gadmin-openvpn client and server installed. When I open the client, it asks for root password, then says in red lettering "OpenVPN is not installed, or not in your path: Status not activated"   I need to import a package from someone, I guess, but I don't know who.

Can anyone help here?

[muungwana]

what version of pclinuxos are you using?

different versions seem to have different entries in user's $PATH

what does this command give you?

stat /usr/sbin/openvpn

[geezuslvr]

george@localhost ~]$ stat /usr/sbin/openvpn
  File: `/usr/sbin/openvpn'
  Size: 638220          Blocks: 1248       IO Block: 4096   regular file
Device: 802h/2050d      Inode: 1963690     Links: 1
Access: (0755/-rwxr-xr-x)  Uid: (    0/    root)   Gid: (    0/    root)
Access: 2012-05-28 14:40:11.089822733 -0700
Modify: 2011-11-09 21:04:25.000000000 -0800
Change: 2012-05-28 14:11:53.549639547 -0700
 Birth: -

Okay... Here is what I did...

I paid 11 bucks to 'hidemyass'  well, something in their script calls for the 'sudo' command. as you know, we over here in the 'safe n send' department, do not use sudo. so now I'm still stuck.

[muungwana]

have you tried a different client?

pcc can setup openvpn, start pcc->network and internet->configure vpn and follow instructions.

never tried it so i dont know if it works or not.

[geezuslvr]

Did not work.  I think when it asked for 'Gateway' I did not know what to put there.

[JohnW_57]

Maybe some usefull info here: http://forum.mandriva.com/en/viewtopic.php?t=52399

JohnW

[djohnston]

I think when it asked for 'Gateway' I did not know what to put there.

If you're talking about HideMyAss's VPN, don't they offer any support? Like what gateway IP address to use?