How to setup OpenVPN client on Windows 10?

How do I connect to OpenVPN SSL VPN?

This guide is aimed at those who have followed through all of the steps from installation of software to configuring OpenVPN on your Linux Mint system, it may or may not help others as well as it works on all releases.

We will see how we can create a virtual connection over the web, by connecting to an HTTPS address. What if I want to connect without using this address? I see the connection in my server logs so that means my connection to Tor will be visible from the network (in case I need to troubleshoot) but how do I connect to the VPN? Well actually, you don't. You use port forwarding. Instead of getting forwarded to 443 for example, when you browse to you will get forwarded to your VPN server and the server will check what port is your VPN tunnel configured for. If your VPN uses a specific port, it will work. There is no need to expose another port.

And finally there is no need to do a lot of manual configuration: I have created a file /etc/openvpn/custom.conf containing this content: And then I ran: systemctl enable openvpn. Systemctl start openvpn. Let's check the status of our settings, and verify that everything worked: sudo openvpn -tun --dns-resolv-tries 1 --dns 64.4 192.168.42.0/24
OpenVPN 2.conf -k remote example.com 443 dev tun. Server 192.0 255.0
Ifconfig 192.1 192.2
Persist-key. Nobind. User nobody. Comp-lzo. Verb 3. Route 192.0 192.1
Push "redirect-gateway def1". Push "dhcp-option DNS 64.4"

How to setup OpenVPN client on Windows 10?

Today I want to share with you the best way to setup an OpenVPN client on Windows 10.

The purpose of this post is to save you a lot of time, and a lot of trouble. I tried many ways to get my OpenVPN client to work. First, I was following the official documentation and trying to install the client on Windows 7. It didn't work, so I tried the official Ubuntu documentation and that didn't work either. The official documentation is outdated, so I'm going to share what worked for me in this post.

To be honest, I had to try all the different ways to make this work. I've spent many hours and even days trying to figure this out. I've tried every possible combination of configurations and the only thing that worked for me was using the official documentation and then manually tweaking the OpenVPN configuration file.

This is the best way to do it. This method also works for Android and Mac clients.

Let's get started. Here are the steps to follow: Step 1: Install Windows Updates. This is a basic step to be sure your computer is fully up to date. I don't know why but if you don't update your computer, you won't be able to use OpenVPN on Windows.

Step 2: Enable Developer Mode. Open the Windows 10 Settings and open the Update and Security menu. Click on For developers on the bottom right and enable Developer Mode. This is necessary for OpenVPN to work properly. If you skip this step, the client will not work.

Step 3: Get the OpenVPN Config File. There are many ways to do this. Here is the best one I've found.

Download the config file for the Windows version of OpenVPN. You can find it here: Extract the config file (or open it with a text editor) and copy the config file to the root directory of your computer.

Can a Windows VPN client connect to an OpenVPN server?

Posted: Sat Aug 07, 2025 03:27 pm. By nadwieziak. Hey there, so I had a problem connecting with my OpenVPN server recently. When I go to the server and attempt to connect, I don't receive the "A VPN connection has been established." message at the top of the client's window. This is quite odd to me, as I believe I followed the instructions on the server guide properly. Can anybody point out any mistakes in my setup or give a solution as to how to connect?

I've tried both 2.4.2 and 2.1 clients from various sources. None seem to be able to connect for some reason.

Posted: Sat Aug 07, 2025 06:05 pm. By Mx9D4x3x7E. Nadwieziak wrote:Can a Windows VPN client connect to an OpenVPN server? There is no reason that would cause this in general. If the system uses the windows version of OpenVPN, when you try to connect, it should ask you which connection to use (there is a small menu in the status window). You can then select that option in that dialog. If your client does not ask for an option to connect you probably have set it up wrong.8.7

And is correct. EDIT: if your client doesn't work at all then we need to know more details on your situation, or some code will have to be posted to get help on this.