Re: [Openvpn-devel] OpenVPN GUI, and routes

[Morris, Russell]

Hi,

Thanks for the thoughts - and they do align with my understanding as well. But 
it is failing unfortunately - only if the GUI is run as non-admin. Log for this 
case is below, from Windows of course (as it shows). Suggestions?

Thu Jun 28 11:46:35 2018 TAP-WIN32 device [OpenVPN] opened: 
\\.\Global\{7D008A8F-BEC3-4196-9CCE-C8970FB55962}.tap
Thu Jun 28 11:46:36 2018 NETSH: C:\WINDOWS\system32\netsh.exe interface ip set 
address OpenVPN dhcp
Thu Jun 28 11:46:36 2018 ERROR: netsh command failed: returned error code 1
Thu Jun 28 11:46:41 2018 NETSH: C:\WINDOWS\system32\netsh.exe interface ip set 
address OpenVPN dhcp
Thu Jun 28 11:46:41 2018 ERROR: netsh command failed: returned error code 1
Thu Jun 28 11:46:46 2018 NETSH: C:\WINDOWS\system32\netsh.exe interface ip set 
address OpenVPN dhcp
Thu Jun 28 11:46:47 2018 ERROR: netsh command failed: returned error code 1
Thu Jun 28 11:46:52 2018 NETSH: C:\WINDOWS\system32\netsh.exe interface ip set 
address OpenVPN dhcp
Thu Jun 28 11:46:52 2018 ERROR: netsh command failed: returned error code 1
Thu Jun 28 11:46:56 2018 NETSH: command failed
Thu Jun 28 11:46:56 2018 Exiting due to fatal error

And I did confirm, as you note,

PS C:\> Get-Service OpenVPNServiceInteractive

Status   Name               DisplayName
------   ----               -----------
Running  OpenVPNServiceI... OpenVPN Interactive Service

Thanks again,
... Russell


PS, good to hear from you again Selva. And yes, it has been a while ... 😊. Hope 
all is well!


-----Original Message-----
From: Samuli Seppänen [mailto:sam...@openvpn.net] 
Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2018 2:53 AM
To: Gert Doering <g...@greenie.muc.de>; Morris, Russell <rmor...@rkmorris.us>
Cc: openvpn-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Openvpn-devel] OpenVPN GUI, and routes

Il 28/06/2018 09:57, Gert Doering ha scritto:
> HI,
> 
> On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 12:54:23AM +0000, Morris, Russell wrote:
>> This may be by design ??? if so just say that and I???ll go away ??? ????. 
>> But that said ??? it seems I have to run the OpenVPN GUI (manually) as an 
>> administrator, for routes to be set / added as directed by the server. Is 
>> this expected? Unfortunately it won???t even allow the client to connect if 
>> this step fails.
> 
> With 2.4.x, the GUI is supposed to run with normal user privs.  Route 
> handling is done by the "OpenVPN Interactive Service", which needs to 
> be running.
> 
> If you install the normal installer provided by us, everything will be 
> set up so it just works.
> 
> If not, provide platform details, logs, etc.
> 

The Windows service name is "OpenVPNServiceInteractive". You can check its 
status from Powershell:

  Get-Service OpenVPNServiceInteractive

To start it:

  Start-Service OpenVPNServiceInteractive

That said, it _should_ be running already if you installed OpenVPN 2.4.x using 
our standard installers.


--
Samuli Seppänen
Community Manager
OpenVPN Technologies, Inc

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