Access Server supports VPN connections from Windows devices using a VPN client app. Our app, OpenVPN Connect, is available for Windows, and makes it easy to do that.
Each Windows device needs a client application to connect with Access Server. We recommend using OpenVPN Connect.
Introduction
This topic is meant for Access Server users who wish to connect their Windows computers using the official OpenVPN Connect app.
OpenVPN Connect is our free VPN client app. You can download it from Access Server's Client Web UI with bundled connection profiles ready to connect to your VPN server. Here, you'll find an overview of connecting to Access Server from Windows and a tutorial you can follow.
OpenVPN Connect
Tutorial: Install OpenVPN Connect
Click on the tutorial below to install OpenVPN Connect from the Client Web UI:
OpenVPN Connect on Windows
The OpenVPN protocol isn't built into Windows. Therefore, you must install a client app to communicate with Access Server. A client app captures the traffic you want to send through the OpenVPN tunnel, encrypts it, passes it to the server, and decrypts the return traffic.
You can download OpenVPN Connect from two places:
Your Access Server's Client Web UI, bundled with a connection profile.
From our website then import a connection profile after installation.
We recommend downloading OpenVPN Connect directly from your Access Server Client Web UI. You can also download the installation file for OpenVPN Connect v3 from the link below:
Open-source OpenVPN GUI
The open-source project also has a Windows client called OpenVPN GUI. This client supports connecting to multiple OpenVPN servers simultaneously, but doing so requires careful configuration to avoid conflicting routes and subnets.
You can import a profile from Access Server using the import option from OpenVPN GUI.
You can save OpenVPN connection profiles into the program’sconfigdirectory, usually located atC:\program files (x86)\openvpn\config\with .conf or .ovpn file extensions. For example, you can download a user-locked or auto-login profile from the OpenVPN Access Server web interface and place it in this directory. The system tray menu displays the options to use with this connection profile.
You can download OpenVPN GUI from thecommunity downloads sectionon our site and download the installer for Windows. The OpenVPN GUI program comes included with this installer.
Helpful Resources
In this section:
The VPN server software, hosted on a Linux operating system.
A device running OpenVPN client software used to connect to Access Server.
The VPN client app to connect to Access Server.
Access Server's web server used by clients to download OpenVPN Connect and configuration profiles.
connection profiles
