Make README.rst conform to the rst syntax

Signed-off-by: Samuli Seppänen <samuli@openvpn.net>
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Samuli Seppänen 9 years ago committed by Samuli Seppänen
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Installation Instructions for OpenVPN GUI for Windows
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You can either get my installation package for OpenVPN 2.0.X where I've
bundled the gui in the installation package, or you can use the original
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Installation using the bundled OpenVPN package with OpenVPN GUI included
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* Download openvpn-2.0.X-gui-1.0.X-install.exe from
http://openvpn.se
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Manual installation of OpenVPN GUI
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* Download and install OpenVPN from http://openvpn.net/
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"Start->All Program->StartUp" folder if you want the gui started automatically
when you logon to Windows.
* Start the GUI by double-clicking the openvpn-gui-1.0.X.exe file.
*** You need to be Administrator the first time you run OpenVPN GUI for it to
create its registry keys. After that you don't have to be administrator
just to run the GUI, however OpenVPN requires the user to be
administrator to run! ***
* Start the GUI by double-clicking the openvpn-gui-1.0.X.exe file. You need to
be Administrator the first time you run OpenVPN GUI for it to create its
registry keys. After that you don't have to be administrator just to run the
GUI, however OpenVPN requires the user to be administrator to run!
Using OpenVPN GUI
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When OpenVPN GUI is started your config folder (C:\Program Files\OpenVPN\config)
will be scanned for .ovpn files, and an icon will be displayed in the taskbar's
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Run OpenVPN GUI as a Non-Admin user
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OpenVPN currently does not work as a normal (non-admin) user. OpenVPN GUI
2.0 will solve this by using an enhanced version of the OpenVPN service
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Limitations with this way:
There is no way for OpenVPN GUI ta hand over a password to the service
* There is no way for OpenVPN GUI ta hand over a password to the service
wrapper, so you can't use passphrase protected private keys or
username/password authentication.
If you have multiple openvpn configurations, all will be started and
* If you have multiple openvpn configurations, all will be started and
stopped at the same time.
OpenVPN GUI is not able to retrieve any status info about the connections
* OpenVPN GUI is not able to retrieve any status info about the connections
from OpenVPN, so it will report connected as soon as the service is
started regarless of if OpenVPN has really succeded to connect or not.
You cannot see the OpenVPN log in real-time.
* You cannot see the OpenVPN log in real-time.
Run Connect/Disconnect/Preconnect Scripts
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*****************************************
There are three diffrent scripts that OpenVPN GUI can execute to help
with diffrent tasks like mapping network drives.
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Registry Values affecting the OpenVPN GUI operation
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***************************************************
All OpenVPN GUI reg-values are located below the following key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\OpenVPN-GUI\
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the windows priority class for each instantiated OpenVPN process,
can be one of:
* "IDLE_PRIORITY_CLASS"
* "BELOW_NORMAL_PRIORITY_CLASS"
* "NORMAL_PRIORITY_CLASS" (default)
* "ABOVE_NORMAL_PRIORITY_CLASS"
* "HIGH_PRIORITY_CLASS"
* IDLE_PRIORITY_CLASS
* BELOW_NORMAL_PRIORITY_CLASS
* NORMAL_PRIORITY_CLASS (default)
* ABOVE_NORMAL_PRIORITY_CLASS
* HIGH_PRIORITY_CLASS
allow_edit
If set to "1", the Edit config menu will be showed.
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of launching openvpn.exe directly.
show_balloon
If set to "0" - Never show any connected balloon.
"1" - Show balloon after initial connection is established.
"2" - Show balloon even after re-connects.
0: Never show any connected balloon
1: Show balloon after initial connection is established
2: Show balloon even after re-connects
log_viewer
The program used to view your log files, defaults to
"C:\windows\notepad.exe"
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Building OpenVPN GUI from source
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* Download and install MinGW and MSYS from http://www.mingw.org/
I'm using MinGW-3.2.0-rc-3 and MSYS-1.0.10.
* Download and install MinGW and MSYS from http://www.mingw.org/. I'm using
MinGW-3.2.0-rc-3 and MSYS-1.0.10.
* Download and install the binary distribution of OpenSSL from
http://www.slproweb.com/products/Win32OpenSSL.html
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* Start a bash shell by running msys.bat.
* Run at the OpenVPN GUI source directory:
$ autoreconf -i
$ ./configure
$ make
* Run at the OpenVPN GUI source directory::
$ autoreconf -i
$ ./configure
$ make

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