You have to right click on it and you will see that option. When you start the OpenVPN MI GUI the first time you need to run it as an administrator. Goto Start > Computer > Manage > Services and Applications > Services. As of this writing, the management GUI is included with the Windows binary installer. Instead of downloading manually, if you have brew set up on MacOS this is as easy as:īrew cask install tunnelblick OpenVPN with GUI for Winįirst download and install the latest OpenVPN Windows Installer. Then put your client.ovpn config file together with the certificates and keys in /Users/username/Library/Application Support/Tunnelblick/Configurations/ and lauch Tunnelblick from your Application folder. It also is recommended by upstream which would have a alternative on their own Download the latest OS X installer from there and install it.

Tunnelblick is an excellent free, open source implementation of a GUI for OpenVPN for OS X.

comp-lzo), dev tap, or other special settings you set on the server. Use the advanced button to enable compression (e.g. In the next window add the OpenVPN’s server name as the ‘Gateway’, set ‘Type’ to ‘Certificates (TLS)’, point ‘User Certificate’ to your user certificate, ‘CA Certificate’ to your CA certificate and ‘Private Key’ to your private key file. Select OpenVPN as the VPN type in the opening requester and press ‘Create’.

Open the Network Manager GUI, select the VPN tab and then the ‘Add’ button. It is the default, but if in doubt make sure you have package network-manager-openvpn installed. Many Linux distributions including Ubuntu desktop variants come with Network Manager, a nice GUI to configure your network settings.

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