Now we need to change one or two more settings setting by clicking on the “'''Advanced'''” keybutton, which will bring up the following dialog box. Check (or “tick” as my English friends say) the boxes box which say “'''Use custom gateway port:'''” (leave this at the default of '''1194''') and says “'''Use LZO data compression.'''” (No, I don't have a clue what LZO is; just check the box!) 1194 may be the default even if you don't tick “Use custom gateway port,” but I'm superstitious.

If you look carefully at the wireless-connection icon in the upper panel, you'll see a sort of “spinning doughnut” that pops up a small padlock on every revolution. That means that OpenVPN is attempting to make the secure VPN connection. Be patient. And note that once in a while, the attempt may time out and you'll see something like the following pop-up message:

[Article still be assembled[File:Vpn-21.png|center|“VPN Connection Failed” message.]]  (Note the Spinning Doughnut to the left of the sound/volume icon, above.) If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. It  Note that when you DO connect, your wireless-connection icon will change subtly, showing a padlock over your signal-strength “antenna”:  [[File:Vpn-22.png|center|The VPN connection “padlock” in the wireless-connection icon.]]  If you hover your cursor over that same icon, a pop-out will be complete also give you a confirmation message:  [[File:Vpn-23.png|center|A “word balloon” confirmation of the VPN connection]]  Of course, the “proof of the pudding” is whether or not you can pull up your Amahi server in a browser window by typing “[[http://hda/]]”:  [[File:Vpn-24 Oct. 2009png|center|The Amahi server dashboard page – via your VPN connection!]]  Once you see that, you ''know'' you're in. Congratulations! Ah, but sooner or later, 23you'll have to leave McDonalds. Or are you at Starbucks? I can't remember. Anyway, to disconnect your VPN session, left-click your wireless-connection icon. Choose “VPN Connections” as before, but this time choose “Disconnect VPN.” That's it – your secure session is terminated.  [[File:59 ZuluVpn-0525.png|center|Disconnecting the VPN session]]  If this doesn't work for you, posting questions about what I've written is relatively useless, because:00] # I'm a relative newcomer to Linux and Ubuntu.# I'm even newer to Amahi.# Stuff like OpenVPN is pretty much over my head. Maybe I just got lucky, but I was able to get “lucky” the same way on two different Ubuntu laptops in the last two days, one running version 9.10 and the other running 9.04. (Admittedly, the graphics in 9.04 are “prettier,” but I wanted to use 9.10 in this tutorial so it wouldn't get “outdated” so quickly.) This tutorial is my first real contribution to the Open Source community. If you find things which need to be corrected or ways in which this tutorial can be improved, jump in and make it better. (This is a wiki, after all.) Maybe you, too, will wind up making the first of many contributions the Open Source community.