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--- en:vpn:windows [2019-11-29 13:10] – Thomas Thiel
+++ en:vpn:windows [2023-03-17 11:10] (current) – [Client Installation] Email-Adresse aktualisiert. Ignatios Souvatzis
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+As the Client will alter the system routes, it will require administrative privileges to achieve that goal. IF you experience problems while connecting using your valid openVPN Profile and see error messages like "Access denied" inyour connection log somewhere, you have to quit the OpenVPN GUI, open the start menu, enter “OpenVPN”, right-click the OpenVPN GUI Icon, and select “Start as Administrator”. the GUI will then be started with the necessary privileges, you will be asked to verify this again shortly after starting the GUI. To make this change permanent, please refer to the section "Permanent administrative rights for the client" further below.
 You will find a new icon in the system tray in direct proximity to the system clock in the lower right of your screen. right-click on it and click on “Import”:
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-If anything goes wrong, please send us the log file of the last connection along with a general description of the problem you have encountered to sgbit@bit.uni-bonn.de. You can access the last log file through right clicking the OpenVPN GUI icon in the system tray and selecting “Log Information”.
+If anything goes wrong, please send us the log file of the last connection along with a general description of the problem you have encountered to gsg@cs.uni-bonn.de. You can access the last log file through right clicking the OpenVPN GUI icon in the system tray and selecting “Log Information”.
+==== Permanent administrative rights for the client====
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+You can assign permanent administrative rights to the client invocation, if you are using a recent Version of Windows, as long as it features an activated User Access Control (UAC), which is the default for stand-alone installations from Windows 7 upwards. To achieve this, you have to check the “administrative rights” checkbox in the Compatibility Settings of the openVPN client. We will show you how to achieve this step by step with some more screenshots below.
+* Step 1: Open the start menu and locate the OpenVPN GUI Icon either through entering a search with the keyboard or by navigating the program folders. right-click on it and select “Open File Location”:
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+* Step 2: Locate the OpenVPN GUI Icon in the freshly opened file explorer window. Right click on it and select “Properties”:
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+* Step 3: Select the “Compatibility” Tab. Locate the checkbox which is labeled “Run this program as Administrator”. Activate this checkbox and click “OK” to save these settings.
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+Now you can use the start menu icon of OpenVPN GUI to start the OpenVPN Client, without explicitly giving it Administrator rights. You still have to verify if it should get them *after* starting the client, which is - btw.- a feature, not a bug.