Hello. I enabled OpenVPN on my Orbi RBR20 using default settings, i.e., TUN on UDP 12973 and TAP on UDP 12974. I installed the OpenVPN client downloaded from OpenVPN.net with default settings.

I copied the configuration files downloaded from the Orbi to OpenVPN\config. The exported client.ovpn file is below, with the remote network name redacted. Following instructions found here, I changed the name of the TAP adapter to "NETGEAR-VPN".

Attempts to connect to the VPN from my Windows 11 Pro client laptop fail. It's connected to the internet using my phone hotspot. NSlookup for the network name is successful.

The log file is below. Among other issues, it says it can't find ca.crt, client.crt or client.key. Those are in the OpenVPN\config folder, as instructed on the page linked above.

What am I doing wrong?

client.ovpn:

client
dev tap
proto udp
dev-node NETGEAR-VPN
remote [NETWORKNAME].mynetgear.com 12974
resolv-retry infinite
nobind
persist-key
persist-tun
ca ca.crt
cert client.crt
key client.key
cipher AES-128-CBC
comp-lzo
verb 0
sndbuf 393216
rcvbuf 393216
route-method exe

client.log

2022-09-14 13:14:40 WARNING: Compression for receiving enabled. Compression has been used in the past to break encryption. Sent packets are not compressed unless "allow-compression yes" is also set.
2022-09-14 13:14:40 DEPRECATED OPTION: --cipher set to 'AES-128-CBC' but missing in --data-ciphers (AES-256-GCM:AES-128-GCM). Future OpenVPN version will ignore --cipher for cipher negotiations. Add 'AES-128-CBC' to --data-ciphers or change --cipher 'AES-128-CBC' to --data-ciphers-fallback 'AES-128-CBC' to silence this warning.
Options error: --ca fails with 'ca.crt': The system cannot find the file specified. (errno=2)
Options error: --cert fails with 'client.crt': The system cannot find the file specified. (errno=2)
2022-09-14 13:14:40 WARNING: cannot stat file 'client.key': The system cannot find the file specified. (errno=2)
Options error: --key fails with 'client.key': The system cannot find the file specified. (errno=2)
Options error: Please correct these errors.
Use --help for more information.

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