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VPN (client.ovpn file import to Network Manager ) not working but sudo openvpn command works

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In Ubuntu 20 I downloaded the client.ovpn file from my company OpenVPN server and imported it into Network Manager and all worked fine. I built a new Ubuntu 22 machine and now improting the the client.ovpn does not work.

I see these errors in the openvpnas.log on the server.

TLS Error: cannot locate HMAC in incoming packet from [AF_INET]99.8.222.97:50342'
Fatal TLS error (check_tls_errors_co), restarting'
SIGUSR1[soft,tls-error] received, client-instance restarting'
TLS Error: cannot locate HMAC in incoming packet from [AF_INET]99.8.222.97:44365 (via [AF_INET]10.1.4.225%eth0)'
TCP connection established with [AF_INET]192.241.220.18:42474'
Non-OpenVPN client protocol detected'
SIGTERM[soft,port-share-redirect] received, client-instance exiting'
If I run openvpn --config client.ovpn from the command line it also fails unless I use 'sudo'
How can I get the GUI Network Manager to work in Ubuntu 22 like it did in Ubuntu 20?
                Ubuntu 20? and Ubuntu 22?  Do you mean Ubuntu Core 20 & Ubuntu Core 20 (which is still in *beta)? as the year format products (20 & 22) are different to the far more widely used year.month products on which they're based (ie. 20.04 & 22.04)   Most things are the same for 22.04 & 22, but many are different, but upgrades from 20 to 22 involve no user applications changing (unlike 20.04 to 22.04 for example which is a different Ubuntu product)
– guiverc
                Jun 15, 2022 at 2:49
                dan@HP-EliteBook-840-G5:~$ lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID:	Ubuntu Description:	Ubuntu 22.04 LTS  Release:	22.04 Codename:	jammy
– Dan
                Jun 15, 2022 at 13:16
                Please correct your question then, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS is a different system to Ubuntu Core 22.  Ubuntu introduced the year products in 2016 (they are snap packages only, so no apt install works) with the different format highlighting the different products.  22 & 22.04 are different systems.  fyi:  22.04 is more power than a 22 system, however the smaller 22 also has some benefits such as faster boot, release-upgrades (20 to 22) do not change any user apps/packages etc... which differs greatly to 20,.04 to 22.04 upgrades...
– guiverc
                Jun 15, 2022 at 13:18