Openvpn 2.1 Vista 64 backslash shenanigans

1. My error msg:

"Options warning: Bad backslash ('\') usage in server.ovpn:1: remember that backslashes are treated as shell-escapes and if you need to pass backslash characters as part of a Windows filename, you should use double backslashes such as "c:\\openvpn\\static.key"
Use --help for more information."

note: I've tried a number of combinations with how to reference the key files including replacing the \\ with \ or / , besides uncommenting the # where there is no use of referencing a folder, just to see. Config files I've seen that were posted to work for someone referenced files similarly as my config file. I even also tried commentiing out lines that reference log files with ;, jik, and still I get the same error stated in quotes above.


2. here is my server config

port 4030
proto udp

dev tap0
dev-node tap-bridge

#ca ca.crt
#cert server.crt
#key server.key
#dh dh1024.pem
ca "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\OpenVPN\\easy-rsa\\keys\\ca.crt"
cert "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\OpenVPN\\easy-rsa\\keys\\server.crt"
key "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\OpenVPN\\easy-rsa\\keys\\server.key"
dh "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\OpenVPN\\easy-rsa\\keys\\dh1024.pem"

ifconfig-pool-persist ipp.txt
server-bridge 10.8.0.4 255.255.255.0 10.8.0.50 10.8.0.100
server-bridge
client-to-client

;duplicate-cn
keepalive 10 120

;tls-auth "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\OpenVPN\\easy-rsa\\keys\\ta.key 0"

cipher AES-128-CBC
comp-lzo
max-clients 100

persist-key
persist-tun

status openvpn-status.log
;log openvpn.log
verb 3
mute 20

;crl-verify crl.pem





3. My procedure & what I did.

-When I installed the v2.1 rc16, I right clicked & ran as adimistrator, jik.

in command prompt I ran

-init-config...

-edited vars.bat default parameters as mentioned in the how to + changed

%programfiles% to %programfiles(x86)%

**vista x64 doesn't install openvpn in its regular program files folder... instead its \program files (x86)\ ,,, the (x86) evironment variable does point to it.


-excecuted vars, clean-all, build-ca, build-key-server server, build-key client1, build-dh & openvpn --genkey --secret ta.key
{ for keys I defaulted all values except common name & committed twice /w y where needed}

-I renamed the tap-win32 adapter v9 to "tap-bridge"

{My main ethernet which I bridged to tap-bridge gets its ip automatically from my d-link router's dhcp. That d-link dhcp is set to give 192.168.0.103 & is associated with its mac. I made sure the newly created bridge had both tap-bridge & local area connection checked in properties.

once bridged. I couldn't ping 192.168.0.103 and ipcondig would show my ip address got assigned to something else in the d-link's dhcp range, within 1 minute vista recognized the change and would be able to access the internet again.}

-I forwarded my udp port.