The only way I can figure out if through Windows Firewall, and I'm not an expert on that subject. I don’t know how to avoid the user to connect to the Internet before the VPN is set. (For all users, %ProgramData%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup or for the current user only, %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup.) To get that to run when you log in, place such a shortcut in the usual startup folder. If using a service is not an option, you can pass extra command line arguments to the OpenVPN GUI invocation to make it automatically connect on startup (as well as showing the tray icon as usual): openvpn-gui.exe -connect myprofile.ovpn In those cases, I decided not to use services at all: In those situations, if I wanted OpenVPN GUI to show them a beautifull list of available connections, it meant that the service saw those files and was trying to connect to them automatically.
I've had some issues in the past with people who needed to have a VPN server as a service plus several vpn client files in the same machine that only connect every now and then. You may want to investigate is there's a way to elaborate a whitelist to force the service to connect only to specific files, and not all. OpenVPN is a ported program, and windows driver subsystem has allways been a pain in the a**. HAving two configurations that you can SEPARATEDLY test succesfully, doesn't mean they'll run together, as they may be competing for the same interface. In Linux this is trivial, but in windows it may be problematic. Added after reading some comments: You need one interface per connection. In windows, I strongly advise to permanently associate an interface with their connection using the configuration files:ĭev-node TAP_Serv forces OpenVPN to bind the connection to the network interface named "Tap_Serv". Keep in mind in most situations you need one TUN/TAP interface per connection file. Start the service, and OpenVPN will find and connect to the profiles in any.Find OpenVPNService, right click on it, Properties, and change startup type from “Manual” to “Automatic”.Open the Services console ( services.msc).conf as is common on Linux) in the config subdirectory of the OpenVPN installation directory, probably C:\Program Files\OpenVPN\config. Place your OpenVPN profiles (with the extension.Install the OpenVPN service when you install the client.
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