Windows 10 Client - Service not working

Turnspit

Cheers!

I'm trying to get the OpenVPN service running on a freshly installed Windows 10 1909 machine. While connecting via GUI works without any hassle, the service doesn't wanna start.

The log created by the service isn't very helpful:

Fri Jul 24 14:19:19 2020 OpenVPN 2.4.9 x86_64-w64-mingw32 [SSL (OpenSSL)] [LZO] [LZ4] [PKCS11] [AEAD] built on Apr 16 2020
Fri Jul 24 14:19:19 2020 Windows version 6.2 (Windows 8 or greater) 64bit
Fri Jul 24 14:19:19 2020 library versions: OpenSSL 1.1.1f 31 Mar 2020, LZO 2.10

And in the event viewer I get the following error message:

openvpnserv error:
StartServiceCtrlDispatcher failed.

I hope someone can help me out here!

Thanks in advance! :-)

TinCanTech

Turnspit wrote the service doesn't wanna start

Works for me ..

Turnspit

Thanks for that absolutely moronic and completely useless comment.

For any sane person that might stumble upon this thread having the same problem as I do:

I needed to set the OpenVPNService to start automatically as well as create new scheduled task ( refer to: https://strongvpn.com/autoconnect-windows-10-openvpn/ ). In contrast to the aforementioned guide I set the task to start "When the computer starts" and made it "Run whether user is logged on or not".

Running the service as well as the scheduled task in conjunction let's OpenVPN correctly connect on startup before any login. Running the service or the task on it's own both isn't working. While the service alone won't do anything, the scheduled task running on it's own connects to the OpenVPN server, but seems to have problems with some parts of the config since I'm then not able to access the internet.

TinCanTech

Turnspit wrote Thanks for that absolutely moronic and completely useless comment

Reflecting the exact same high quality of your initial question ...

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