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sabot105mm
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openvpn gui problem

Post by sabot105mm » Mon Mar 07, 2011 4:17 pm

i have win 7 installed with the latest stable openvpn edition 2.1. the problem is whenever i launch the gui and right click, there is no ovpn files to click, i can only see proxy, help, and about thats it. i did try one thing where i pinned the gui on the task bar and right clicked, from there i was able to see my ovpn but when i clicked on one it says "i'm trying to parse "c:\program files (x86)\openvpn\config\connect.ovpn as an --option parameter but i dont see a leading '--'"

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Re: openvpn gui problem

Post by janjust » Tue Mar 08, 2011 10:44 am

the openvpn gui expects the configuration files to be present in

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c:\program files (x86)\openvpn\config
with an extension of .ovpn ; make sure the files are actually in that directory and not in a virtual store (which can happen if you use , for example, PuTTY's pcsp to transfer .ovpn files).

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Re: openvpn gui problem

Post by sabot105mm » Tue Mar 08, 2011 7:17 pm

yeah its in the exact location as what the error states it is in
C:\Program Files (x86)\OpenVPN\config\connect.ovpn

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Re: openvpn gui problem

Post by janjust » Tue Mar 08, 2011 10:03 pm

is there a 'Connect' button in the OpenVPN GUI menu? if you have only a single .ovpn file then you cannot select a file - there's simply a single 'Connect' button.
As an alternative, try duplicating the connect.ovpn file to connect2.ovpn - now you should see 2 entries in the OpenVPN GUI.

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Re: openvpn gui problem

Post by sabot105mm » Wed Mar 09, 2011 1:02 am

right clicking reveals only proxy settings about and exit like i said

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