I actually managed to get it figured out now. I did multiple reinstalls making sure that I selected to have the openvpn service installed. None of that seemed to work.
I finally went into the properties of that service and specified a user and password to use to run the service. Then it worked! The user I chose is the same one I am logged in as. Is that a bug of some kind? Why should I have to do that? Thanks! Austin Witmer > On Jun 25, 2022, at 4:32 PM, Selva Nair <selva.n...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > Check whether openvpnservice is installed by running the following from a > command line > > sc query OpenVPNService > > It will show whether the service exists and its current state. If installed > but nor running open services and change the startup to automatic and start. > > If not installed, you may have to uninstall openvpn and re-install it. Select > custom install and make sure OpenVPN service is selected. > > It seems the msi installer has some weird logic in selecting when to install > the service (so-called automatic service) and when to set it to auto start. > The interactive service used by the GUI is installed by default. > > Selva > > > On Sat, Jun 25, 2022 at 3:09 PM Austin Witmer <austi...@emypeople.net > <mailto:austi...@emypeople.net>> wrote: > Hello all! > > I am setting up an OpenVPN server on a windows server for a client, but ran > into the problem where the openvpn service in services doesn’t pick up the > config files I placed into the C:\Program Files\Openvpn\config folder. > > I can start the server from the command line just fine and also from the > openvpn-gui client, but when I start the openvpn service in services, the > service starts and stays running, but the server isn’t listening for incoming > connections. > > The log files aren't being created either, so that make me think that for > some reason the openvpn service isn’t seeing my server.ovpn file with my > configuration. > > By the way, this is the latest version of openvpn downloaded and installed > this morning. > > Do you have any idea what the problem is? Thanks in advance for your help! > > Austin Witmer > > _______________________________________________ > Openvpn-users mailing list > Openvpn-users@lists.sourceforge.net > <mailto:Openvpn-users@lists.sourceforge.net> > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openvpn-users > <https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openvpn-users>
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