Hi, first of all i'm sorry for my english.
My question is about how i can contribute to the webpage. I've got the old OpenVPN Portable source and i've adapted the installer for me:
- Use of the latest openvpn version (2.3.8) and the latest drivers.
- An admin version for people that need it (for example for add routes to windows Vista and above). The normal version works too, but you need to right click on the exe and run as administrator (and is too hard for some users... i've experience with that).
For now the most of the program is the original (works perfect, why change it), but the two changes of above can be useful for someone and then i want to share it.
Greetings!!
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Hi @Danixu,
This is exactly what I'm looking for, and updated version of OpenVPN portable, including the latest drivers. I already wrote in another forum where some users wrote about how to update the portable version to the latest version.
I hope you will visit the forum again and perhaps you have the latest version? Could you please share the latest version with me? And perhaps a guide how to update the portable version once a new version of OpenVPN is released?
Many thanks!
Hi,
For now i've done my own app based on the original portable.
If you want to try the app you can download the file from here:
https://mega.nz/#!roRTUJIL!QisKTfDAsIZ9wH-UoQv6_8wwkAo4Aq_VIHt_TtG8AD0
And the source is here:
https://bitbucket.org/Danixu86/openvpn-portable-ng
Is the first version but I think is working fine.
At first run it extract the drivers to app/drivers folder, creates the data/log folder and an example data/OpenVPNPortable.ini file. Then it ask to download the latest version from official OpenVPN webpage. If you answer yes then it download the neccesary installer for your windows version and extract the files into app/bin folder.
Maybe the drivers are not the latest, but are working fine and i think that there's no difference. Maybe one day i'll try to update that drivers.
Greetings!!
Excellent, many thanks! It sounds really great. I downloaded your version from Mega, but when I run it, I click download latest version, it downloads, but when downloaded it gives me Error -14, according to the logs when extracting and copying the files. here you can see the log:
http://pastebin.com/mSMbdU8M
Any ideas? I tried on Windows 7 Professional 32-bit. I will try at home on Windows 10 Pro 64-bit and see if it works.
Oops, sorry. I forgot about that "bug" but is easy to fix.
My program uses 7-zip to extract the files from OpenVPN installer, but I've used the 64 bits binaries from my computer and fails on a 32 bits OS.
Here's the fixed version and should work fine
https://mega.nz/#!u9plWZpJ!hnI4kCsuK-TsOg6X0kyEPdPrHKc7lr-lKy3iD08wnyI
Greetings!!
Many thanks, this version works perfectly! At home I only have 64-bit OS, but here only 32. I guess I should use the 32-bit version even on the 64-bit OS.
Two tips perhaps you would like to consider for a future release:
-- replace the old and outdated openvpn-gui.exe with the latest one. I just copied over the latest version from official OpenVPN installer and it works great.
-- TAP drivers should be updated, as these are still the old win2k versions. Most likely they should work fine on Win10, but it would be good to be on the latest release. The .inf file has been renamed from OemWin2k.inf to OemVista.inf, not sure if this can be simply just replaced or needs some other modifications whit reference to the name change.
- one more thing, rather a personal comment: replace the ugly splash screen with a discrete and modern OpenVpn logo or something, as the one used is really awful. I disable the splash in ini, but still:)
You should definitely add your work to the official PortableApps downloads. Great job you have done, and it is very appreciated, thank you! Before you submit your work, please update the drivers and the gui (and perhaps the splash).
May I have your permission to distribute to some friends your work?
Hi,
-- I've to think about replace the openvpn-gui.exe because the latest need some registry entries and I've tried to keep a working program without need to create that keys.
-- About drivers, it has both versions (Win2K for XP and WinVista for Vista and above). I can delete the old win2k files without problem but i've keept that files to keep the compatibility with XP.
I've to made some fixes because for now the program extract the drivers and replace any driver that you have copied.
Greetings!!