Introduction:

I recently started using the BTGuard VPN service and it has taken a lot of fiddling around to make it work in any user-friendly way.
This guide will tell you how to set it up so that you can just start OpenVPN and click “Connect”, then it just works.

Instructions:

1. Follow the official BTGuard steps from here.
2. Close OpenVPN.
3. Create a text file called password.txt and in it, put your username on the first line and your password on the second line.
4. Go into your OpenVPN config folder (the same one mentioned in the official BTGuard guide) and put password.txt in there.
5. Change the line “auth-user-pass” to “auth-user-pass password.txt”, and save the file.
   Note: You may need to copy the file to another folder in order to edit it, then copy it back to the config folder. This is due to Windows security.
6. Download the latest official version of OpenVPN from here and install it.

Now you can simply start OpenVPN, right-click the icon in the system tray and click Connect. It will connect automatically, and automatically re-connect without prompting you for your login information again.

Changelog:

22/12/2011

• Updated instructions for latest BTGuard configuration

26/07/2011

• Initial article