Difference between OpenVPN Desktop and Connect clients?

tacom6

What's the difference besides the obvious?

What would you recommend and what situations?

Thanks a bunch,
Nile

ChrisGer1669

Hope somebody can reply to this question I am interested in knowing the difference to.

oscarenzo

connect clients its a software? or are you meaning to openvpn?

for connect to openvpn server you can use from windows the GUI or start the services only, for this last you need to creathe the config file in the directory /config on the openvpn installation path

regards,

Mimiko

tacom6, What is "OpenVPN Desktop" ? Where did you get such thing?

Brody

OpenVPN behaves exactly as described in the manual. There is NO client or server in static-key mode. Even "clients" will connect to each other. The difference with pfsense is, that it omits the "remote <address>" option when it's configured as server (if you add it under "Advanced configuration", you'll get the "client"; "report" option is also important).

This can be important if you connect to systems with dyndns addresses (for example), because you get a connection even if the "servers"-address won't resolve at the moment (because the "server" connects the "client").

BillyBuerger

I just noticed one of our users had a different desktop client then the normal connect client that it downloads when you connect to the access server. (Connect V2.0.0.400) I couldn't find it on any link on the website. But when I searched google for "OpenVPN client", you get a link to client software. (Desktop Client V1.5.6) This software seems to work just fine and would appear to be more like the mobile versions of the connect application. Not sure why there's no links (that I can see) to this page. And there's two Windows links which appear to be the same download.

Is this what the OP was talking about?