After finally making the change from windows to Ubuntu, one needed function remains unfulfilled - a needed connection via OpenVPN to a distant location.
I have all the files from the previously working configuration that match those at the other end, but have not been able to get the right info into the right places to make it work.
Posting at the OpenVPN forum has brought only nastiness in return from folks who use that place to promote their commercial agendas.
Given the state of things at present, visiting that location to make changes is not a viable option.
I am hoping very much that someone else here has made this change before & will kindly guide me so that I may have a working connection again.
Thanks for any helpful replies.
I posted my query here as I thought it was as simple as closing the gap in moving an OpenVPN connection from windows to Ubuntu. That idea proved to be incorrect. It turns out that it is a version mismatch between what Ubuntu is using now vs. what the PC at the distant location is using, that is an older version which I must travel there to update manually. Since I cannot travel there in the present craziness, it must wait for me to do that.
In the meantime it is fortunate that I had the foresight to install the free version of Anydesk there such that I can access all EXCEPT for the OpenVPN server, and I am still able to fire up the old windows box here if I desperately need to use that connection.
The info I needed to identify that mismatch was provided at the server s/w site by a user who knew the correct & specific things to check in finding why my present OS could not log in.
Oversimplification=> It is just too new !!