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[Openvpn-users] Status = 55 Error. Help!

[Crypto C. <cry...@gm...>]

Hello,

I am totally frustrated over this problem. I have read a dozen posts about
it with no luck. For starters:

1) I have my Tap adapter enabled. I tried disabling and re-enabling. No
luck.

2) My tap Adapter *does* show up on Network Connections, however, ipconfig
*does not* show any tap adapters at all. OpenVpn --show-net *does not* show
any Tap devices either.

2.1) Device manager shows it as "TAP-Win32 Adapter V8", it is *not* hidden
and says it is working correctly. Characteristics is 0x81 in registry.

2.2) I have two additional Tap Adapters that got installed with openVpn:
"TAP-Win32 Adapter V8 - CommStudio Virtual Adapter By TamoSoft" and
"TAP-Win32 Adapter V8 - Minipuerto del administrador de paquetes". These
last two however, show up as hidden.

3) Of course I did try uninstalling and reinstalling at least 5 times the
whole OpenVPN package, including the tap adapter, making sure every trace o=
f
it gets completely deleted from the registry before reinstalling.

3.1) I am using version 2.0.2 downloaded 2 weeks ago from
http://openvpn.net/download.html

4) Firewall is of course OFF. No other personal firewalls are installed.

5) I have no antivirus Software installed at all, so no other firewalls
could be messing with it.

6) I am on a Dial Up connection to the internet.

Setup: Windows XP professional SP2. Spanish

When I try to connect to my bridged VPN server, I get the following error:


Sun Oct 30 22:26:01 2005 TAP-WIN32 device [my-tap]
opened:\\.\Global\{60727E9C-93CA-4091-AB85-71F059F641BA}.tap
Sun Oct 30 22:26:01 2005 TAP-Win32 Driver Version 8.1
Sun Oct 30 22:26:01 2005 TAP-Win32 MTU=3D1500
Sun Oct 30 22:26:01 2005 Notified TAP-Win32 driver to set a DHCP IP/netmask
of 1
0.0.133.71/255.255.255.0 <http://0.0.133.71/255.255.255.0> on interface
{60727E9C-93CA-4091-AB85-71F059F641BA} [DHCP-serv:
10.0.133.0<http://10.0.133.0>,
lease-time: 31536000]
Sun Oct 30 22:26:01 2005 NOTE: could not get adapter index for
\DEVICE\TCPIP_{60
727E9C-93CA-4091-AB85-71F059F641BA}, status=3D55 : El recurso de red o el
dispositivo especificados ya no se encuentran disponibles.


I know my configuration file is correct, because I have succesfully
installed an openvpn client under another windows XP SP2 computer (with
different sets of certificates of course, it is not a client clash) with th=
e
very same config file (albeit the certs). The only difference between
computers is the OS language. The problem machine is Spanish, the client
with no problem is in english. One other difference is one machine is on a
dialup link, the other one is on cable.

Help Please!

Re: [Openvpn-users] Status = 55 Error. Help!

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

On Wed, 2 Nov 2005, Crypto Cracker wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am totally frustrated over this problem. I have read a dozen posts about
> it with no luck. For starters:
>
> 1) I have my Tap adapter enabled. I tried disabling and re-enabling. No
> luck.
>
> 2) My tap Adapter *does* show up on Network Connections, however, ipconfig
> *does not* show any tap adapters at all. OpenVpn --show-net *does not* show
> any Tap devices either.
>
> 2.1) Device manager shows it as "TAP-Win32 Adapter V8", it is *not* hidden
> and says it is working correctly. Characteristics is 0x81 in registry.
>
> 2.2) I have two additional Tap Adapters that got installed with openVpn:
> "TAP-Win32 Adapter V8 - CommStudio Virtual Adapter By TamoSoft" and
> "TAP-Win32 Adapter V8 - Minipuerto del administrador de paquetes". These
> last two however, show up as hidden.
>
> 3) Of course I did try uninstalling and reinstalling at least 5 times the
> whole OpenVPN package, including the tap adapter, making sure every trace of
> it gets completely deleted from the registry before reinstalling.
>
> 3.1) I am using version 2.0.2 downloaded 2 weeks ago from
> http://openvpn.net/download.html
>
> 4) Firewall is of course OFF. No other personal firewalls are installed.
>
> 5) I have no antivirus Software installed at all, so no other firewalls
> could be messing with it.
>
> 6) I am on a Dial Up connection to the internet.

Hmm, I can see you have been reading up on this problem before posting as 
you seem to have tried everything I would have normally suggested already 
;-)

One thing though, have you tried running WinSockFix? (Google for it) Your 
problem description doesn't really match others that winsockfix have taken 
care of but it might be worth giving a shot anyway.

-- 
_____________________________________________________________
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Re: [Openvpn-users] Status = 55 Error. Help!

[Crypto C. <cry...@gm...>]

On 11/2/05, Mathias Sundman <ma...@op...> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2 Nov 2005, Crypto Cracker wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am totally frustrated over this problem. I have read a dozen posts
> about
> > it with no luck. For starters:
> >
> > 1) I have my Tap adapter enabled. I tried disabling and re-enabling. No
> > luck.
> >
> > 2) My tap Adapter *does* show up on Network Connections, however,
> ipconfig
> > *does not* show any tap adapters at all. OpenVpn --show-net *does not*
> show
> > any Tap devices either.
> >
> > 2.1) Device manager shows it as "TAP-Win32 Adapter V8", it is *not*
> hidden
> > and says it is working correctly. Characteristics is 0x81 in registry.
> >
> > 2.2) I have two additional Tap Adapters that got installed with openVpn=
:
> > "TAP-Win32 Adapter V8 - CommStudio Virtual Adapter By TamoSoft" and
> > "TAP-Win32 Adapter V8 - Minipuerto del administrador de paquetes". Thes=
e
> > last two however, show up as hidden.
> >
> > 3) Of course I did try uninstalling and reinstalling at least 5 times
> the
> > whole OpenVPN package, including the tap adapter, making sure every
> trace of
> > it gets completely deleted from the registry before reinstalling.
> >
> > 3.1) I am using version 2.0.2 downloaded 2 weeks ago from
> > http://openvpn.net/download.html
> >
> > 4) Firewall is of course OFF. No other personal firewalls are installed=
.
> >
> > 5) I have no antivirus Software installed at all, so no other firewalls
> > could be messing with it.
> >
> > 6) I am on a Dial Up connection to the internet.
>
> Hmm, I can see you have been reading up on this problem before posting as
> you seem to have tried everything I would have normally suggested already
> ;-)


Yeah I tried to do my homework before bothering you guys.. ;-)

One thing though, have you tried running WinSockFix? (Google for it) Your
> problem description doesn't really match others that winsockfix have take=
n
> care of but it might be worth giving a shot anyway.


I did that. No difference. By the way, I updated to using openvpn 2.0.4.
Same error. Could it be the OS's language distribution do you think?

I am all ears if you want to use me as an experiment to try and find this
bug. I can install debug versions and produce logs that you can analize and
digest if you want. Just let me know what you need from me.

Should I move this problem to the development list?

Thanks a lot!

--
> _____________________________________________________________
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>

Re: [Openvpn-users] Status = 55 Error. Help!

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

On Wed, 2 Nov 2005, Crypto Cracker wrote:

> On 11/2/05, Mathias Sundman <ma...@op...> wrote:
>
>> One thing though, have you tried running WinSockFix? (Google for it) 
>> Your problem description doesn't really match others that winsockfix 
>> have taken care of but it might be worth giving a shot anyway.
>
> I did that. No difference. By the way, I updated to using openvpn 2.0.4. 
> Same error. Could it be the OS's language distribution do you think?

Don't think so, no.

> I am all ears if you want to use me as an experiment to try and find 
> this bug. I can install debug versions and produce logs that you can 
> analize and digest if you want. Just let me know what you need from me.

Well, that's great if I only had some more tips to give, but I houestly 
feel a little lost in this case. I havn't even looked at the TAP-Win32 
driver source and even if I had, I don't think that's where the problem 
is. It seems more to me like a problem with the installation of the TAP 
driver, and as James has stated in several posts, the installation of a 
driver is not done by the driver itself, it is done by windows so if the 
installation goes wrong there is not much we can do about it.

So, I'm sorry to say but I don't have many more tips to give, except for 
the tip you never want to hear -- A reinstall of Windows would probably 
sovle it!

Hopefully someone else have some good ideas...

> Should I move this problem to the development list?

No, I still think it is a user problem.

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_____________________________________________________________
Mathias Sundman                  (^)   ASCII Ribbon Campaign
OpenVPN GUI for Windows           X    NO HTML/RTF in e-mail
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Re: [Openvpn-users] Status = 55 Error. Help!

[James Y. <ji...@yo...>]

> > > 2.2) I have two additional Tap Adapters that got installed with openVpn:
> > > "TAP-Win32 Adapter V8 - CommStudio Virtual Adapter By TamoSoft" and
> > > "TAP-Win32 Adapter V8 - Minipuerto del administrador de paquetes". These
> > > last two however, show up as hidden.

This might be your problem.  Make sure the TAP-Win32 adapters supplied by 
different apps are not interfering with one another and/or with OpenVPN.

There are a list of steps documented as comments in the OemWin2k.inf that
application developers must follow in order for their own TAP-Win32
adapter instances to not clash with TAP-Win32 adapters used by other
applications.  If these steps are not followed by a given application,
then there could be interference with OpenVPN.

James

Re: [Openvpn-users] Status = 55 Error. Help!

[Crypto C. <cry...@gm...>]

On 11/3/05, James Yonan <ji...@yo...> wrote:
>
> > > > 2.2) I have two additional Tap Adapters that got installed with
> openVpn:
> > > > "TAP-Win32 Adapter V8 - CommStudio Virtual Adapter By TamoSoft" and
> > > > "TAP-Win32 Adapter V8 - Minipuerto del administrador de paquetes".
> These
> > > > last two however, show up as hidden.
>
> This might be your problem. Make sure the TAP-Win32 adapters supplied by
> different apps are not interfering with one another and/or with OpenVPN.


Yes, this was my problem. Thanks James. I forgot to come back here after I
solved it, and now that I came back as a coincidence, I am
writing this email for completeness sake. I went to my Tap
Adapter->Properties, and disabled all the items I didnt need. I was left
with
client for M$ networks and TCP/IP. It worked like a charm. After several
trial and error testing minimal changes I figured out that
it was the "CommStudio Virtual Adapter By TamoSoft" what was causing the
problem... ;)

Thanks a lot everybody for their help.

There are a list of steps documented as comments in the OemWin2k.inf that
> application developers must follow in order for their own TAP-Win32
> adapter instances to not clash with TAP-Win32 adapters used by other
> applications. If these steps are not followed by a given application,
> then there could be interference with OpenVPN.
>
> James
>
>
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