Re: [Openvpn-devel] CreateFile failed on TAP device

[Mathias S. <ma...@ni...>]

On Fri, 5 Nov 2004, Hans Fugal wrote:

> A user is getting this error. She's using XP
>
> Fri Nov 05 09:07:24 2004 us=747770 CreateFile failed on TAP device:
> \\.\Global\{A3B605BE-B118-49BA-92C3-C6ADFD7A364C}.tap: The system
> cannot find the file specified.   (errno=2)
>
> Attached is her full log. She was connecting just fine yesterday. I've
> had her stop and start via openvpn gui, with the same results (this
> log file is from the start after the stop)
>
> I don't know what to tell her, other than to uninstall, reboot, and
> reinstall. Does anyone have any other advice?

Ahh, now I remember. This was asked a few weeks ago, and then someone gave 
the tip to check if the TAP device had misstakenly been disabled.

I just checked, and you do get exactly that message if the device is 
disabled.

I guess reinstalling openvpn re-enables the interface, so that explains 
why that would solve the problem.

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