Ahh, well now I know what that error means if someone accidentally
disables the TAP device in the future.
BTW is there a command-line way to rename the tap device to something
like OpenVPN TAP Device N or something, rather than Local Area
Connection N? It would make it easier for phone support. I ask for
command-line because that could be done automatically in my installer.
On Sat, 6 Nov 2004 16:41:54 +0100 (CET), Mathias Sundman
<math...@nilings.se> wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, 5 Nov 2004, Hans Fugal wrote:
>
> > A user is getting this error. She's using XP
> >
> > Fri Nov 05 09:07:24 2004 us=747770 CreateFile failed on TAP device:
> > \\.\Global\{A3B605BE-B118-49BA-92C3-C6ADFD7A364C}.tap: The system
> > cannot find the file specified. (errno=2)
> >
> > Attached is her full log. She was connecting just fine yesterday. I've
> > had her stop and start via openvpn gui, with the same results (this
> > log file is from the start after the stop)
> >
> > I don't know what to tell her, other than to uninstall, reboot, and
> > reinstall. Does anyone have any other advice?
>
> Ahh, now I remember. This was asked a few weeks ago, and then someone gave
> the tip to check if the TAP device had misstakenly been disabled.
>
> I just checked, and you do get exactly that message if the device is
> disabled.
>
> I guess reinstalling openvpn re-enables the interface, so that explains
> why that would solve the problem.
>
>
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