Re: [Openvpn-users] From Windows 7 client to OpenVPN server

Hi, On Fri, Sep 05, 2014 at 02:56:52PM +0200, Timothy Murphy wrote: > The device 192.168.6.10 is not set up to accept connections on port pptp. > I had in fact opened port pptp (1723) on the computer I was connecting to. pptp is not OpenVPN, and OpenVPN is not configured via the "control panel"

Re: [Openvpn-users] From Windows 7 client to OpenVPN server

Timothy Murphy wrote: > Thanks very much for your very helpful reply. > I am quickly uninstalling the version I had installed > and installing the one you recommend. >> I suggest using the official OpenVPN (OSS) community client: >>

Re: [Openvpn-users] From Windows 7 client to OpenVPN server

Hi, On Thu, Sep 04, 2014 at 02:53:44PM +0100, Giles Coochey wrote: > Couldn't the GUI ask the service (which runs as "Local System account") > to insert the routes on its behalf??? This is about how the new mechanism in 2.4 works - we have a service that does the privileged stuff, while gui and

Re: [Openvpn-users] From Windows 7 client to OpenVPN server

Hi, Am 04.09.14 um 15:53 schrieb Giles Coochey: >> nope: the VPN needs to be able to add or remove routes to the OS and >> >for that you need NetworkAdministrator privileges at a minimum. >> >You might be able to get away with running it using a user that has >> >those privs, but I doubt that it w

Re: [Openvpn-users] From Windows 7 client to OpenVPN server

On Thursday, September 04, 2014 04:05:45 PM Samuli Seppänen wrote: > > I gave up on that, and installed the "standalone" OpenVPN client, from > > > > > 395-how-to-install-the-openvpn-client-on-windows.html>, > > > > using the sam

Re: [Openvpn-users] From Windows 7 client to OpenVPN server

Hi, On Thu, Sep 04, 2014 at 02:37:39PM +0100, Giles Coochey wrote: > On 04/09/2014 14:05, Samuli Seppänen wrote: > >b) Start (new) OpenVPN-GUI as Admin > > Has anyone been able to remove the need to start it as Admin? In my > ideal world I would start it and it would just connect to my default

Re: [Openvpn-users] From Windows 7 client to OpenVPN server

On 04/09/2014 14:44, Jan Just Keijser wrote: Giles Coochey wrote: On 04/09/2014 14:05, Samuli Seppänen wrote: b) Start (new) OpenVPN-GUI as Admin Has anyone been able to remove the need to start it as Admin? In my ideal world I would start it and it would just connect to my default profile.

Re: [Openvpn-users] From Windows 7 client to OpenVPN server

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/09/14 15:37, Giles Coochey wrote: > On 04/09/2014 14:05, Samuli Seppänen wrote: >> b) Start (new) OpenVPN-GUI as Admin > > Has anyone been able to remove the need to start it as Admin? In > my ideal world I would start it and it would just conne

Re: [Openvpn-users] From Windows 7 client to OpenVPN server

Giles Coochey wrote: > On 04/09/2014 14:05, Samuli Seppänen wrote: >> b) Start (new) OpenVPN-GUI as Admin > > Has anyone been able to remove the need to start it as Admin? In my > ideal world I would start it and it would just connect to my default > profile. nope: the VPN needs to be able to ad

Re: [Openvpn-users] From Windows 7 client to OpenVPN server

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/09/14 12:45, Timothy Murphy wrote: > David Sommerseth wrote: > >> You do need to install the OpenVPN client to connect to a >> OpenVPN server. The VPNs supported by Microsoft Windows are not >> compatible with OpenVPN. > > Following your advic

Re: [Openvpn-users] From Windows 7 client to OpenVPN server

On 04/09/2014 14:05, Samuli Seppänen wrote: b) Start (new) OpenVPN-GUI as Admin Has anyone been able to remove the need to start it as Admin? In my ideal world I would start it and it would just connect to my default profile. -- Regards, Giles Coochey, CCNP, CCNA, CCNAS NetSecSpec Ltd +44

Re: [Openvpn-users] From Windows 7 client to OpenVPN server

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > David Sommerseth wrote: > >> You do need to install the OpenVPN client to connect to a OpenVPN >> server. The VPNs supported by Microsoft Windows are not compatible >> with OpenVPN. > > Following your advice, I installed OpenVPN on my Windows 7 la

Re: [Openvpn-users] From Windows 7 client to OpenVPN server

David Sommerseth wrote: > You do need to install the OpenVPN client to connect to a OpenVPN > server. The VPNs supported by Microsoft Windows are not compatible > with OpenVPN. Following your advice, I installed OpenVPN on my Windows 7 laptop. I started by following the not terribly good advice

Re: [Openvpn-users] From Windows 7 client to OpenVPN server

thy Murphy Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2014 10:36 AM To: openvpn-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Openvpn-users] From Windows 7 client to OpenVPN server I'm running openvpn on a CentOS-7 home server. This works fine with my Fedora-20 laptops. But now I'm trying to establish connect

Re: [Openvpn-users] From Windows 7 client to OpenVPN server

David Sommerseth wrote: >> 1) Do I actually need to install any software on this laptop? As >> far as I can see, Windows 7 has built-in VPN client software. Or is >> that nonsense? > > You do need to install the OpenVPN client to connect to a OpenVPN > server. The VPNs supported by Microsoft Win

Re: [Openvpn-users] From Windows 7 client to OpenVPN server

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/09/14 16:36, Timothy Murphy wrote: > I'm running openvpn on a CentOS-7 home server. This works fine with > my Fedora-20 laptops. But now I'm trying to establish connection > from a Windows 7 laptop - actually the same laptop but dual-booted > in

[Openvpn-users] From Windows 7 client to OpenVPN server

I'm running openvpn on a CentOS-7 home server. This works fine with my Fedora-20 laptops. But now I'm trying to establish connection from a Windows 7 laptop - actually the same laptop but dual-booted into Windows. I am not at all familiar with Windows, which I rarely use. (I'm carrying out this ex