Hi,

If you search the archives of this list (or possibly openvpn-users), you
will find an earlier mail from Jason Haar which had instructions on how
to configuring OpenVPN to run inside nssm.exe.

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> Hmm Interesting idea.
>
> I will grab a copy of NSSM and give it a try.
>
> So does it need to be constantly running on the client machine or is it just 
> a service installer that you setup the service and its parameters (im 
> guessing what .ovpn connection to run) and it will install it?
>
> Thanks for the recommendation!
>
> Ryan
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jason Haar [mailto:jason_h...@trimble.com] 
> Sent: 19 March 2015 21:57
> To: openvpn-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Openvpn-devel] OpenVPN Service Windows 8
>
> Unless other changes have been made to the windows service, I'd recommend not 
> using it at all. There are error conditions under which it just hangs and 
> blocks openvpn.exe from working
>
> We moved to using nssm - we set it to auto-restart on error and now openvpn 
> as a Windows service is as reliable as openvpn as a Unix service
>
> Jason
>
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>
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