Starting Point - Ports 445 and 1433 not open/connection issues

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I just encountered the same problem as you, and I solved it like this:

  1. Use 【ps -ef | grep openvpn】 to find related processes.
  2. Here, I found a process of an openvpn command that the 【root】 user has executed. Write down its PID.
  3. Use 【kill 】 to directly close the process.
  4. Use 【openvpn】 again to execute your 【starting point】 configuration file.

The real reason, I think is this:

  1. What is loaded by default is the openvpn configuration file of 【HTB Lab】.
  2. When two openvpn instructions are executed at the same time, there seems to be a conflict ? The previous one needs to be closed to execute the next one correctly.

This is what I tried. Now I can use it normally.