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Or from an administrator Command Prompt :Ĭ:\Windows\system32>net stop openvpnservice C:\Windows\system32>net start openvpnservice Client configuration.Right click OpenVPNService then Restart :.C:\Windows\system32>netsh advfirewall firewall add rule name="OpenVPN" dir=in localport=1194 remoteport=0-65535 protocol=UDP action=allow remoteip=any localip=any C:\Program Files\OpenVPN\config-auto\server.ovpnĪs administrator, edit C:\Program Files\OpenVPN\config-auto\server.ovpn file : port 1194 Use the Windows Firewall Management Console or this command inside a Administrator command line console to do that. We need to open 1194 udp port to allow OpenVPN clients connections. To C:\Program Files\OpenVPN\config-auto and C:\Program Files\OpenVPN\config folders.Put this files (from C:\Program Files\OpenVPN\easy-rsa\pki, C:\Program Files\OpenVPN\easy-rsa\pki\issued and C:\Program Files\OpenVPN\easy-rsa\pki\private) :.easyrsa build-client-full client01 nopass Certificates Initialize pki, and type yes to confirm :.Remove existing configuration, just for good measure :.And type the following commands to enter inside EasyRSA shell :Ĭ:\Windows\system32>cd C:\Program Files\OpenVPN\easy-rsa C:\Program Files\OpenVPN\easy-rsa>EasyRSA-Start.bat.Open a Command Prompt as administrator :.Here we will set up a pki to be able to create our server and clients certificates. Setting up Certificate Authority (CA) and generating certificates and keys for server and clients And we install EasyRsa in order to be able to create server and clients certificates :.We enable OpenVPN Service in order to make it work at boot :.As we want to install OpenVPN as server we will choose Customize :.
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Go to OpenVPN official website and download last installer. OpenVPN is a very powerfull VPN which has several advantages : it is free, compatible with most operating systems, easy to implement and highly configurable.
#SERVER OPENVPN HOW TO#
We will see here how to set up a OpenVPN server under Microsoft Windows Server.