OS Win 10, OpenVPN Connect ver 3.3.1 (2222) I'm trying to create a bat file that would first connect my WiFi, and once that's established connect VPN. Starting WiFi connection with netsh works, but not the VPN connection. Command [code]openvpnconnect \profile.ovpn[/code] loads the GUI and shows the available profiles. What I'd like to happen is the client to actually connect using the defined profile. Is that even possible, if yes, how?

Connecting via CLI?

Peregrino69

OS Win 10, OpenVPN Connect ver 3.3.1 (2222)

I'm trying to create a bat file that would first connect my WiFi, and once that's established connect VPN. Starting WiFi connection with netsh works, but not the VPN connection. Command

openvpnconnect <full path>\profile.ovpn

loads the GUI and shows the available profiles. What I'd like to happen is the client to actually connect using the defined profile.

Is that even possible, if yes, how?

Peregrino69

Should I understand "No, there's no way to have Windows OpenVPN client connect automatically when launched from CMD", or am I just being hasty?

Peregrino69

So far looks like the answer is indeed no, not possible with OpenVPN Connect. Only with the OpenVPN Community client 2.5.3.

openvpn_inc

Hello Peregrino69,

OpenVPN Connect v3.3 has command line parameters for configuring the client program, importing, renaming, deleting of profiles, and other options. In a future release we will add more command line parameters to control the connection from the command line.

At this time if you need command line support for connecting, use the community client.

Kind regards,
Johan

Peregrino69

Thank you, Johan

Importing profiles and all that jazz worked well enough with the Connect client. I was just missing that last step, automatic connection w/o user intervention.

The community client indeed provides that, good enough for my current needs. I hope Connect client gets the same functionality in the future.