I’ve set up openvpn servers on multiple windows machines before, but never ran into that problem before.
If I have the time, I might have to do some testing on another machine and see if I can replicate the issue. Austin Witmer > On Jun 27, 2022, at 12:57 AM, Samuli Seppänen <sam...@openvpn.net> wrote: > > HI, > > Il 26/06/22 04:33, Austin Witmer ha scritto: >> 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? > > This is not normal and we have not heard of this before. Normally > OpenVPNService runs just fine with admin privileges and does not require > defining any credentials. > > To me it seems like some Windows setting or possibly some security software > is interfering with normal function of OpenVPNService and what you did > allowed working around the issue. > > Samuli > >> Thanks! >> Austin Witmer >>> On Jun 25, 2022, at 4:32 PM, Selva Nair <selva.n...@gmail.com >>> <mailto: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> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Openvpn-users mailing list >> Openvpn-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openvpn-users _______________________________________________ Openvpn-users mailing list Openvpn-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openvpn-users
