Hi On Wed, Sep 9, 2020 at 8:30 PM Marvin <volleynb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Selva, > > Sorry for the wrong thread. I was replying to an earlier thread about > this same error on Beta1 and beta2. So i am a bit confused by your > statement that this error did not show up in earlier betas, because that's > what started this thread. > The GUI did not have this error unless run as administrator which you should not and will never work. What was fixed was the error generated even when run as SYSTEM from the automatic service or on command line using psexec or other tools that can elevate to SYSTEM. Selva > > Marvin > > On Wed, Sep 9, 2020 at 5:14 PM Selva Nair <selva.n...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi Marvin, >> >> This is the wrong thread, but... >> >> On Wed, Sep 9, 2020 at 7:54 PM Marvin <volleynb...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Hi Guys, >>> >>> I just tested beta3 on Win10. I am getting the exact same error with >>> wintun as before. TAP works normally. I tried with the GUI and by cli. >>> >> >> The GUI never generated this error even before beta3, so not sure what >> you are doing wrong. Ensure that the interactive service is running (that's >> the default) and GUI is not started with admin privileges (do not start >> the GUI from an elevated command line or using run as admin). >> >> For cli you will get this error unless you use some utility like psexec >> to elevate to SYSTEM. >> >> For connections started at boot using OpenVPNService (not the same as the >> interactive service used by the GUI) beta3 should work. There was a bug >> that affected this use case which was fixed in beta3. >> >> >>> 2020-09-09 16:23:20 us=991306 ERROR: Wintun requires SYSTEM privileges >>> and therefore should be used with interactive service. If you want to use >>> openvpn from command line, you need to do SYSTEM elevation yourself (for >>> example with psexec). >>> 2020-09-09 16:23:20 us=991306 Exiting due to fatal error >>> >> >> If you got this error running from the command line as SYSTEM please >> check the logs to be sure its beta3. >> >> Selva >> >>
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