Hi,

Il 16/04/2018 16:56, fragmentux ha scritto:
> Hi,
> 
> I have successfully installed and am currently using this driver
> on Windows 10 fully upto date.
> 
> Aside from the usual windblows crap (new layers of BS between *Programs
> and Features and Network Connections .. you know what I mean) the
> installation went smoothly.
> 
> However, some issues encountered:
> 
> * On first running my normal (unchanged) server config, openvpn bombed
> out with "Cannot retrieve password" .. on second run the error was gone.
> Tried uninstall/reinstall TAP driver and the same error did NOT occur.

I think this was some glitch. The "Cannot retrieve password" does not
seem tap-related at all.

> * During install Windows asked "If i wanted to trust openvpn inc .."
> to which I replied NO.  On the second install Windows did NOT ask "if
> I wanted to trust openvpn inc." .. I don't know what that means ..
> Perhaps, the install cert was installed anyway ?

Perhaps it cached the answer in memory, but not on disk? In any case the
signature seems solid even on fully up-to-date Windows 10.

Many thanks for testing this!

-- 
Samuli Seppänen
Community Manager
OpenVPN Technologies, Inc

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> 
> HTH
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 16/04/18 08:20, Samuli Seppänen wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> We're bundling a tap-windows6 driver (9.21.3) with OpenVPN 2.4.6 that is
>> due later this week:
>>
>> https://build.openvpn.net/downloads/temp/tap-windows-9.21.3-I601.exe
>>
>> The main difference to the old driver (9.21.2) is that the driver and
>> installer have only a SHA2 Authenticode signature[*]. This means that
>> Windows Vista should refuse to install the driver. Some outdated Windows
>> 7 installations might behave the same. This is intentional on our part,
>> as Vista is EOL and we don't want to support Windows 7 installations
>> that are horribly outdated.
>>
>> I've tested installing this driver on Windows 7 Pro (64-bit) and Windows
>> 2012r2 (64-bit) and I did not encounter any installation issues.
>> However, I do not have access to Windows 8 or Windows 10, nor to 32-bit
>> platforms.
>>
>> I would appreciate somebody could do additional driver installation
>> tests. This would help build confidence in the driver before we push it
>> out. Verifying that the driver installs fine is enough.
>>
>>
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