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- #WINDOWS OPENVPN CLIENTS HOW TO#
- #WINDOWS OPENVPN CLIENTS INSTALL#
- #WINDOWS OPENVPN CLIENTS WINDOWS 10#
Scroll your mouse pointer over it and click "Connect": When you have done so, the name of your client configuration will appear in the OpenVPN GUI drop-down menu. Then right-click the "OpenVPN GUI" ( ) icon and import your configuration file. Then click the "Show hidden icons" ( ) button located in the right hand corner of the Windows taskbar. The necessary markers are in place inside the example config file. NOTE: don't forget to copy the other certificates as well.
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Below is an example of how the file looks like: Then copy the contents of the certificates into that file. Enter the OpenVPN options relevant to your configuration. To do so, simply open the configuration file with any text editor. When you have the certificates in order, you can start configuring the client.
#WINDOWS OPENVPN CLIENTS HOW TO#
The process on how to do that is described here in detail. Since we'll be using TLS authentication for this example, we'll need to generate TLS certificates for our configuration to work. The file stores standard OpenVPN options, the values of which depend on the server type and user preferences, and authentication certificates or file paths to the certificates. You can either download an example file from the Internet or use our configuration file as a template, which you can download by clicking here. The client configuration is stored in a single text file.
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If you have familiarized yourself with the configuration scheme, installed the necessary software and have all of the devices in order, we can start configuring the OpenVPN client using instructions provided in this section. For examples in this guide you can just use default settings in the installation, unless your own configuration requires otherwise. The file in question should be named something like this: openvpn-install-2.4.6-I602.exe (actual name depends on the current OpenVPN version). You can find the download link for the newest OpenVPN version here.
#WINDOWS OPENVPN CLIENTS INSTALL#
To create an OpenVPN client we'll need to download and install the OpenVPN Windows application.
#WINDOWS OPENVPN CLIENTS WINDOWS 10#
The client is configured on a Windows 10 PC or Laptop, while the server is undefined in this example, i.e., we will be focusing mainly on the client configuration method, since the server could belong to any OpenVPN service provider. The scheme itself is very simple - an OpenVPN client connects to an OpenVPN server.