Orbi 753 and Open VPN - has anyone managed to make this work for a mac laptop??

Can you please explain "teather".  Does that refer to:

• Physically connect the laptop to the iPhone, or
• Create a WiFi Hot Spot on the iPhone and connect the laptop to it?

On my (old) RBR50, the smart_phone.zip file contains one file named "smart_phone.ovpn". There is no file named "client.ovpn".  Perhaps in their infinite wisdom Netgear decided to rename the ovpn file for the RBR750 series?

I've attached my smart_phone.ovpn file.  Does your client.ovpn have the same sections as mine?

client
dev tun
proto udp
remote myDDNSname.mynetgear.com  12973
resolv-retry infinite
nobind
persist-key
persist-tun
<ca>
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5AqiTpjQNyyyd9eUo6xXDweM9JPgWA==
-----END CERTIFICATE-----
</ca>
<cert>
Certificate:
    Data:
        Version: 3 (0x2)
        Serial Number: 2 (0x2)
    Signature Algorithm: sha256WithRSAEncryption
        Issuer: C=TW, ST=TW, L=Taipei, O=netgear, OU=netgear, CN=netgear CA/name=EasyRSA/emailAddress=mail@netgear
        Validity
            Not Before: Jul 13 19:33:02 2018 GMT
            Not After : Jul  8 19:33:02 2038 GMT
        Subject: C=TW, ST=TW, L=Taipei, O=netgear, OU=netgear, CN=client/name=EasyRSA/emailAddress=mail@netgear
        Subject Public Key Info:
            Public Key Algorithm: rsaEncryption
                Public-Key: (1024 bit)
                Modulus:
                    00:d6:29:ce:29:61:81:18:a4:ea:31:9b:e7:21:7a:
                    53:e8:4d:41:c0:13:e9:80:b7:9a:7e:d8:62:fe:7b:
                    7b:01:c0:2c:13:b8:36:44:44:ad:20:19:cc:79:3d:
                    af:73:68:74:60:bb:14:d6:32:1b:4d:34:88:57:82:
                    b4:e1:6a:ac:88:62:01:d4:f1:58:54:4a:0c:00:7a:
                    e9:01:7b:67:d9:d7:a6:cb:1d:9a:23:fd:0b:52:a6:
                    6a:05:25:40:38:79:06:20:71
                Exponent: 65537 (0x10001)
        X509v3 extensions:
            X509v3 Basic Constraints: 
                CA:FALSE
            Netscape Comment: 
                Easy-RSA Generated Certificate
            X509v3 Subject Key Identifier: 
                ED:01:3E:B4:0B:F3:BA:F9:D8:55:56:9F:A4:80:35:89:C7:F5:DE:15
            X509v3 Authority Key Identifier: 
                keyid:7F:26:F7:0D:1A:DF:DB:DF:49:2D:AC:33:63:A7:6D:92:2B:6D:AA:ED
                DirName:/C=TW/ST=TW/L=Taipei/O=netgear/OU=netgear/CN=netgear CA/name=EasyRSA/emailAddress=mail@netgear
                serial:FD:7E:A8:2F:9C:3E:F8:85

            X509v3 Extended Key Usage: 
                TLS Web Client Authentication
            X509v3 Key Usage: 
                Digital Signature
    Signature Algorithm: sha256WithRSAEncryption
         e4:9b:e2:54:9a:b4:5f:2b:4d:18:d7:bd:c8:31:66:59:e6:36:
         30:f9:44:bb:06:f0:53:43:3c:c4:ff:4b:85:af:a4:f7:de:41:
         11:d7:0d:75:96:28:f8:fc:9d:95:76:71:39:e5:d8:62:5f:a3:
         da:4e:49:fa:c2:65:8b:23:b6:97:5c:bd:df:58:d2:22:cf:61:
         90:8b:36:b9:84:62:a3:00:0c:91:4b:36:72:df:91:f8:3f:1a:
         1a:e8:62:5f:17:19:91:04:65:3e:a2:f6:a6:50:1c:6e:a8:9e:
         2b:5c
-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
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-----END CERTIFICATE-----
</cert>
<key>
-----BEGIN PRIVATE KEY-----
MIICdgIBADANBgkqhkiG9w0BAQEFAASCAmAwggJcAgEAAoGBANYpzilhgRik6jGb
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-----END PRIVATE KEY-----
</key>
cipher AES-128-CBC
comp-lzo
verb 5

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@My Estub wrote:

I've been battling with the VPN server in the orbi for some time now. If I tether my mac laptop to my phone at home in the UK running on data I can connect via tunnelblick. If I'm on an external network I can't connect via tunnelblick. I have checked and the external networks do not share the same 192.168.1.xxx as the orbi network.

I have not been able to connect directly to VPN via Open VPN with either my phone or my iPad as every time I try to open the client.ovpn file downloaded from the "smartphone" button from the router both tell me they 'failed to parse profile: ca.crt, client cut, client.key".

 

I thought it's ok, I can still tether to my phone and connect to my home network with the mac laptop. I've recently arrived in the US and although I have a data plan and tunnelblick connects on the mac I can no longer access my home network.

 

Are netgear purposefully making this impossible and providing as little documentation as possible?

 

If anyone has any help or advice it will be much appreciated. 

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