Thank you so much for the input I will check this one today. On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 11:56 PM, fooler mail <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 3:15 PM, Tata Dano <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Mon Mar 1 00:03:12 2010 Note: Cannot open TUN/TAP dev /dev/net/tun: > > Permission denied (errno=13) > > hi, > > i downloaded openvpn version 2.1.1 today and check your error > above.... error above can be found at openvpndir/tun.c line 1106... it > attempts to open /dev/net/tun in read/write access mode (O_RDWR).. > according to /usr/include/asm/errno.h, error number 13 is EACCES... > looking at "man 2 open", it says: > > EACCES The requested access to the file is not allowed, or one of > the > directories in pathname did not allow search (execute) > permis- > sion, or the file did not exist yet and write access to > the > parent directory is not allowed. > > things to do on your side... > > 1. make sure /dev/net/tun file is existing.. if not instruction can be > found inside INSTALL file as root account... > > TUN/TAP Driver Configuration: > > * Linux 2.4 or higher (with integrated TUN/TAP driver): > > (1) make device node: mknod /dev/net/tun c 10 200 > (2a) add to /etc/modules.conf: alias char-major-10-200 tun > (2b) load driver: modprobe tun > (3) enable routing: echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward > > Note that either of steps (2a) or (2b) is sufficient. While (2a) > only needs to be done once per install, (2b) needs to be done once > per reboot. If you install from RPM (see above) and use the > openvpn.init script, these steps are taken care of for you. > > 2. check the path and file permission of /dev/net/tun... a quick check > by doing the commands as normal user below: > > $ cd /dev/net > $ ls -al tun > crw------- 1 root root 10, 200 Mar 2 15:51 tun > > normally it owns by root.. you need to run openvpn as root and make > sure that your server configuration file change its daemon's privilege > to user nobody and group nobody for security reason.. > > > One more inquiry, is it possible to connect openvpn on windows machine > without any > > additional installation of openvpn client? If so, then how can this be > done? > > nope...it cant be done... microsoft's built-in vpn clients are pptp > and l2tp/ipsec only as openvpn is a ssl vpn which is not compatible to > those two... > > fooler. > _________________________________________________ > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph > -- Tata Dano Linux Registered User #383849 http://zimaso.sourceforge.net/ http://immactamb.proboards86.com/ http://hccitforums.proboards62.com/
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