Re: [Openvpn-users] Automating network connection rename (Windows)

[Charles D. <cd...@sp...>]

Kris Jordan wrote:
> Darren Spruell wrote, On 12/12/2006 6:57 PM:
>> On 12/12/06, Kris Jordan <ope...@jj...> wrote:
>>> Windows 2k/XP:
>>>
>>> Is there an automated method to rename the newly created OpenVPN tap
>>> network connection? Like "Local Area Connection 28" --> "Company VPN".
>>> The only hope I see, is doing something to the tap driver installation
>>> to give it a specific name to begin with, but I don't see anything
>>> special in the .inf file for this.
>> The string used for the description field on the interface is stored
>> in the registry in several locations. In theory you could find the
>> key(s) that store that and update them, perhaps as part of your
>> installationi script or something.
> 
> Yeah, found the keys before I send the email. But I don't see a way to 
> distinguish which one is the current/new one. Windows also doesn't 
> bother to remove the non-existent interface registry keys either.

I don't know how Windows UUIDs are formatted -- but type 1 GUIDs have 
their creation time encoded; that section could possibly be used for 
comparison.

For just narrowing down which devices are tap-win32 adapters, you might 
look at what openvpn --show-adapters does and the relevant code behind it.