Hi, i installed openvpn gui 11.14 on my win7 computer. Everytime during the start of the windows i am getting error window: Openvpn gui OpenVpnServiceInteractive is not started. Task requiring administrative access my not work. No idea why ... even my services.msc has OpenvVpnServiceInteractive start to autostart. Any idea? thanks!

Is the Openvpn-InteractiveService actually started though ?

yes, even that error message popped up. Isnt that strange?

It is probably due to your firewall .. check that localhost connections are allowed. Otherwise, please make sure that the service is started. As a last resort you could try reinstalling. This may help a little: https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/OpenVPN-GUI-New#gui-group

hi, service is started ... i also reinstalled... Well i am running / booting as Admin user. Not sure what do you mean by firewall? localhost connections where? ;/ thanks

[quote=heap post_id=88638 time=1577646205 user_id=48253] service is started ... i also reinstalled [/quote]And the same thing happened .. [quote=heap post_id=88638 time=1577646205 user_id=48253] Well i am running / booting as Admin user [/quote]Openvpn has gone out of it's way to make it so poeple like you can run openvpn with a non-admin user for the sake of security .. [quote=heap post_id=88638 time=1577646205 user_id=48253] Not sure what do you mean by firewall? localhost connections where? [/quote]Google firewall .. focus on Windows .. enjoy .. Or just disable the windows firewall temporarily.

hello, is there any better replacement / client? Well my windows fw is disabled, but i have eset nod32 firewall which is more sophisticated. ;/ so thinking what exactly has to be allowed on that fw. thanks

[quote=heap post_id=88642 time=1577655539 user_id=48253] i have eset nod32 firewall which is more sophisticated. [/quote]But not sophisticated enough to [i]actually[/i] help you .. As I said before .. connections to [b]localhost[/b].

okay, but what connections to localhost? i am running vpn client .. so while booting no vpn connection is open... still confused. thanks

The GUI is trying to connect to the IService .. but i suspect you are blocking it, possibly deliberately ..

what exactly is IService? cant google anything about it under win7

openvpn gui v11.14 + win7

TinCanTech

I suspect you are running your computer logged in as an administrator and without password checking.

This is very insecure.

Then what happens is, your account is logged in and the GUI is auto-started before the interactiveService has had time to start.

I would advise you do not use your computer when it is configured this way ..

heap

hello,
exactly! its like you said > I suspect you are running your computer logged in as an administrator and without password checking.

Well its parents computer... in their house ... so no pass is basically required....

In that case is it possible to postopone auto-start of the service?

heap

@tincantech any idea? thanks!

TinCanTech

Don't start the GUI at user logon.

heap

@tincantech ah so basicaly i keep service start after boot and run gui manually once machine is booted up and ready.

openvpn gui has option Lunch on windows startup. I assume have to disable that. thanks

TinCanTech

That is one option, or you could start openvpn with the usual Windows service.

The decision is yours ..

TinCanTech

heap wrote basicaly i keep service start after boot and run gui manually once machine is booted up and ready

Does running the GUI manually actually fix the problem and with your firewall enabled ?

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