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Frequently Asked Questions
What's the difference between freeware and commercial tunXten versions?
Download The OpenVPN GUI Client Now you’re ready to head on over to OpenVPN’s website. Click on the “Community” tab and then click on “Downloads”. To launch the installer, now click on the button by the category “WINDOWS INSTALLER (NSIS)”. OpenVPN GUI is a graphical frontend for OpenVPN running on Windows XP / Vista / 7 / 8. It creates an icon in the notification area from which you OpenVPN GUI - Browse Files at SourceForge.net. Clicking the OpenVPN GUI icon on desktop will just open up an icon on the icon tray on taskbar at your monitor's bottom-right (pointed by red arrow). Double left-click it will bring up nothing. You have to right-click on the icon and its interface will show up. It is just Settings and Exit.
There is a trial period of 30 days during which you can enjoy using a fully functional application. After that, you have an option of purchasing a license or continue using the free version of the client. The only limitation of the freeware edition is that it always uses the default settings. It won't load any configuration changes you've made or custom actions you've defined for your OpenVPN configs. Note that changes to the actual OpenVPN configuration files are not affected by this. See the difference for example:
Licensed version
Note that you can still change anything you like, but the changes will only last for a working session and after you restart the application everything will be reverted back to defaults. Purchasing a license removes this limitation, and moreover - you won't have to reconfigure tunXten, it will load your previously saved preferences after the registration code is entered.What is all this OpenVPN stuff anyway, uh?
We believe the best way to get acquainted with the basics is to visit the official OpenVPN Community site, an abundance of useful documentation can be found there.
I noticed tunXten installs and uses some kind of Windows service, why is that?
OpenVPN requires administrative priviges for some operations, the most important of which is to actually make a connection. And one of the best security practices for Windows is not to use Administrator accounts for daily work. The tunXten service is designed to bridge the gap between commonly used restricted (or even guest) accounts and the need to do things requiring elevated privileges. The tunXten GUI transparently delegates all the necessary work to the service.
Does tunXten 'call home' or otherwise access external Internet resources?
By default tunXten is set up to periodically check for updates, so it accesses its website looking for a newer version, but it's a one-way communication - it only queries the information and does not send anything to the site. Besides, if you don't like this behavior you can disable it in the settings.
What are these TAP adapters and why do I need them?
A 'tap' device is a virtual ethernet adapter which is required by OpenVPN to create a secure connection and a TAP-Win32 adapter represents an endpoint of a VPN tunnel. So, basically, for every VPN connection there should be one TAP adapter as well. You can easily add/remove adapters using the Advanced tab of the tunXten settings dialog.
Is tunXten compatible with 64-bit Windows OS?
Yes, although tunXten executables are 32-bit binaries, they work perfectly on 64-bit Windows, in fact, we extensively use it every day on our workstations running Windows 7 Professional 64-bit.
I bought multiple licenses but received only one license key, is there something missing?
Everything is Ok, a single multi-license key permits you to use the software on multiple computers at the same time and the number of licenses bought is displayed in the About dialog:
Where does tunXten store OpenVPN configuration files?
There are two places where the application looks for OpenVPN configuration files upon its start:
- System-wide location - the 'config' directory in its installation folder (if you're using the personal edition then generally the directory is not there as it's intended to be handled by sysadmins, see the details here. OpenVPN configuration files found there are available to every user of the system.
- Your personal storage - the 'tunXten' directory in the Application Data folder located in your Windows profile. These configurations are visible only to you.
Note: the system-wide path will not be shown if it doesn't exist.
My antivirus/antimalware software tells me that tunXten (or its installer) imposes some threat for my system, can you explain?
No protection software is perfect, and even the most popular or sophisticated one is still prone to jumping to conclusions every now and then, making false positive decisions. We can absolutely assure you there are no threats or security concerns about our products. You can check it out yourself by grabbing the installer and submitting it to any online virus scan resource of your choice. In fact, we actually did so with version 1.0.4 and you can see the report here. Maschine 2 expansion decoded forms 1 0 0 download free. Also, when someone tells us that their antivirus is complaining about our product, we don't just let the whole thing slide - we always try to reproduce the behavior and submit a false positive report to the antivirus vendor so they can fix the problem.
After finish installing OpenVPN on Windows 8.1, we will get OpenVPN GUI icon appeared on desktop / Apps list. By the time this article is written, the latest OpenVPN version is 2.3.6.
OpenVPN GUI has different interface than the OpenVPN Client interface from older OpenVPN version that appeared on various tutorials across the internet. This interface difference can make users confused at first as there is no obvious clue on how to configure the connection profiles to connect to VPN on the OpenVPN GUI interface.
OpenVPN GUI interface after it is just installed
Clicking the OpenVPN GUI icon on desktop will just open up an icon on the icon tray on taskbar at your monitor's bottom-right (pointed by red arrow). Double left-click it will bring up nothing. You have to right-click on the icon and its interface will show up. It is just Settings and Exit. The Settings menu is for the OpenVPN itself - no sight of place / settings to configure the connection profiles.
Configure Connection Profiles
Make ready your connection configuration file. The configuration file has .ovpn file extension.
Copy the configuration file you want to use to config folder in your OpenVPN's installation folder. The default location is C:Program FilesOpenVPNconfig.
Once you copied the configuration file to config folder, the configuration settings of your connection profile will show up on the OpenVPN GUI icon when you right-clicked it. Hover over your chosen connection profile and the option to connect, view log, edit config, and change password will be displayed.
Click connect. Make sure you have run OpenVPN GUI as administrator. If the connection you want to use is password protected, you will be prompted to enter username and password. Wait for the connecting progress to complete until a notification message popup from the OpenVPN GUI icon on the taskbar, stating that you are now connected to the VPN with certain IP address assigned to you. The OpenVPN GUI icon will also turned to green indicating the VPN is connected. Amandine 1 0 1.
Click connect. Make sure you have run OpenVPN GUI as administrator. If the connection you want to use is password protected, you will be prompted to enter username and password. Wait for the connecting progress to complete until a notification message popup from the OpenVPN GUI icon on the taskbar, stating that you are now connected to the VPN with certain IP address assigned to you. The OpenVPN GUI icon will also turned to green indicating the VPN is connected. Amandine 1 0 1.
Issue: VPN is connected, but IP address does not change
It happens likely because you are not running the OpenVPN GUI with administrator's right. Without administrator's right, it can not change your current IP address even if you have been connected to a VPN connection correctly.
There is few ways to access settings to run OpenVPN GUI as administrator.
- From OpenVPN GUI icon on desktop.
- From openvpn-gui.exe file in bin folder in OpenVPN installation folder (C:Program FilesOpenVPNbin).
Both ways is the same thing. Just choose which one is faster to be accessed.
- Right click on the icon > choose 'Run as administrator'.
If you don't want to do it every time you want to run OpenVPN as administrator, you can set as default by:
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- Right click on the icon > Properties > Compatibility tab > Settings section > Check the option 'Run this program as an administrator' > Click OK
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