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Hi,
I'm evaluating Viscosity and trying to set it up so that I can connect to our company's server.
My knowledge about networking is rather limited, so I'm struggling... My system admin told me that we use password authentication and not SSL/TLS client authentication. Although in the networks tab of Viscosity it is possible to enable "use username/password authentication", I cannot find a way to get rid of this: "Options error: Parameter tls_remote can only be specified in TLS-mode, i.e. where --tls-server or --tls-client is also specified."
No matter what I set in the Certificates panel, I get this or a similar error. I used the "Satic Key" type with a "secret.key" file, because the other two options are called SSL/TLS which we do not use.
But the error message suggests that Viscosity is trying to use TLS. How can I use password authentication only?
Or to simply put: what am I doing wrong?
Please help!
Szabesz
I'm evaluating Viscosity and trying to set it up so that I can connect to our company's server.
My knowledge about networking is rather limited, so I'm struggling... My system admin told me that we use password authentication and not SSL/TLS client authentication. Although in the networks tab of Viscosity it is possible to enable "use username/password authentication", I cannot find a way to get rid of this: "Options error: Parameter tls_remote can only be specified in TLS-mode, i.e. where --tls-server or --tls-client is also specified."
No matter what I set in the Certificates panel, I get this or a similar error. I used the "Satic Key" type with a "secret.key" file, because the other two options are called SSL/TLS which we do not use.
But the error message suggests that Viscosity is trying to use TLS. How can I use password authentication only?
Or to simply put: what am I doing wrong?
Please help!
Szabesz
Hi Szabesz,
If you edit your connection, and go to the Advanced tab, are their any TLS based commands there (namely tls-remote)? If you delete these, how do you go?
If you're able to, ask your system admin for a OpenVPN config file for Windows, and import this into Viscosity. It should hopefully work without modification.
Cheers
James
If you edit your connection, and go to the Advanced tab, are their any TLS based commands there (namely tls-remote)? If you delete these, how do you go?
If you're able to, ask your system admin for a OpenVPN config file for Windows, and import this into Viscosity. It should hopefully work without modification.
Cheers
James
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Hi James,
Thanx for the reply. Yes, I had "tls-remote" in the advanced commands. I deleted it and "it got a bit better" The log had changed to: "Options error: You must define CA file (--ca) or PKCS#12 file (--pkcs12)". After this, in the Certificates tab I provided my ca.crt file.
Now the connection can get started, but right now I am at another place where I need to configure the routers so that I can connect... I will do it soon (maybe tomorrow), and hope that I will finally be able to connect.
Btw it was the Windows config file that I used in the first place.
Hope I can get back with good news
Best,
Szabesz
Thanx for the reply. Yes, I had "tls-remote" in the advanced commands. I deleted it and "it got a bit better" The log had changed to: "Options error: You must define CA file (--ca) or PKCS#12 file (--pkcs12)". After this, in the Certificates tab I provided my ca.crt file.
Now the connection can get started, but right now I am at another place where I need to configure the routers so that I can connect... I will do it soon (maybe tomorrow), and hope that I will finally be able to connect.
Btw it was the Windows config file that I used in the first place.
Hope I can get back with good news
Best,
Szabesz
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