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.
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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