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Top posting to follow exisitng trend... I think that in Vista, even the admin accounts don't have full admin privileges. I had a similar problem with OpenVPN on a vista laptop and the fix was to assign administrative privileges to the Openvpn executable itself. I think it was done via the properties page. Dave Paul Harlow wrote: > > Apologies, I failed to mention that yes I am an administrator. Domain > administrator to be exact so permissions should not be an issue > however I run into permission issues all the time with Vista. > > I know that in order to add routes to Vista even an administrator must > run the CMD tool in an ‘administrative mode’. > > Thanks for the response. J > > Paul Harlow > > 303.695.3861 - desk > > 303.913.2804 - cell > > *From:* Leonardo Rodrigues Magalhães [mailto:leolistas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] > *Sent:* Tuesday, October 02, 2007 3:33 PM > *To:* Paul Harlow > *Cc:* openvpn-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > *Subject:* Re: [Openvpn-users] OpenVPN client on Vista > > > You're running with non-admin user. OpenVPN needs some network > privileges for adding the new (and required) routes for traffic > flowing through the VPN tunnel. > > You have to run with some admin user OR get the right permissions on > your non-admin user. I dont know what's the right privilege on Vista > neither how to give privileges on Vista. But that's the point, you > dont have right for creating new routes and, thus, nothing will flow > through the vpn tunnel. > > > Paul Harlow escreveu: > > Hello, > > I keep seeing that it’s possible to run OpenVPN on Vista however I > cannot get it to work on a laptop with Vista Business installed. > OpenVPN 2.1_rc4 installs flawlessly and the drivers appear to install > without issues as well. Initially I’ve tested this client/server setup > on Windows XP and it works flawlessly. > > When I connect the client on Vista (using the GUI tool) it appears to > connect successfully however no traffic will route via the ‘new’ > interface. When I look in the log I get the following errors: > > NOTE: FlushIpNetTable failed on interface [18] > {CE78FFF2-3B21-4A7F-931E-6D07AE329934} (status=5) : Access is denied. > > TEST ROUTES: 2/2 succeeded len=2 ret=1 a=0 u/d=up > > route ADD 10.9.1.0 MASK 255.255.255.0 10.10.9.5 > > ROUTE: route addition failed using CreateIpForwardEntry: Access is > denied. [status=5 if_index=18] > > Route addition via IPAPI failed [adaptive] > > Route addition fallback to route.exe > > The requested operation requires elevation. > > ERROR: Windows route add command failed [adaptive]: system() returned > error code 1 > > route ADD 10.10.9.1 MASK 255.255.255.255 10.10.9.5 > > ROUTE: route addition failed using CreateIpForwardEntry: Access is > denied. [status=5 if_index=18] > > Route addition via IPAPI failed [adaptive] > > Route addition fallback to route.exe > > The requested operation requires elevation. > > ERROR: Windows route add command failed [adaptive]: system() returned > error code 1 > > Initialization Sequence Completed > > Are there fixes or work arounds to this? I cannot find anything and > the archives only go back to April. > > Paul > > > > -- > > > Atenciosamente / Sincerily, > Leonardo Rodrigues > Solutti Tecnologia > http://www.solutti.com.br > > Minha armadilha de SPAM, NÃO mandem email > gertrudes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:gertrudes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > My SPAMTRAP, do not email it > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Openvpn-users mailing list > Openvpn-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openvpn-users > ____________________________________________ Openvpn-users mailing list Openvpn-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openvpn-users |