Hi Selva, The GUI did not have this error unless run as administrator which you > should not and will never work.
So you are saying that if OpenVPN is installed by a user who has admin privileges (as our case does) that v2.5 with wintun will not work? On Wed, Sep 9, 2020 at 6:03 PM Selva Nair <selva.n...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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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