As previously mentioned if you're receiving a message to install the TAP driver, don't worry as that driver is needed for connecting via OpenVPN VPN protocol and it will only install a virtual network adapter used for OpenVPN protocol.
Since that VPN protocol isn't present in Windows by default, it needs to be installed separately. Regarding connection issues and accessing your members area, for additional security it is possible that you experienced certain temporary limit if you tried unusual action and regarding configuration files, I have checked and there were no issues at the time and configuration files are there and accessible normally, I'm sorry to hear you've had to take a longer route but I'm glad to hear you were able to access it and configure it normally.
You can download other configuration files and copy them to your OpenVPN config folder (by default C:/Program Files/OpenVPN/config/ ) and confirm that you allow it and you can switch between the locations when you right click on the OpenVPN icon from your system tray.
On your new laptop you can also you can also install OpenVPN standalone client, the method is basically the same but you can check this guide here: And for Windows 10 download this OpenVPN file - https://swupdate.openvpn.org/communi...I607-Win10.exe
Sincerely,
Nathan
Doc.AElstein@t-online.de
Sep 20, 07:00 UTC
Hello Nathan
I have just found this message in my out box. I am not sure if it was sent
as intended on wednesday. So ignoore it if you have already recieved
it..................
Thanks for the extra info.
It still seems a bit of a spaghetti muddle to me in finding where to get
the correct download, but I guess that is inevitable as things get changed/
updated.. So your info is helpful.
Tap stuff
I remember you telling me about the stuff, but was not sure if it applied to the screenshot in my last EMail So thanks again, - slowly all is becoming clear to me
( Today I got another variation of such a screenshot whilst installing OpenVPN on my some machines. This time it asked if I wanted to install a tap thing, so I did.. https://imgur.com/e7h7lMd
(This part of the instillation seemed to take a long time today ). )
As far as I can tell, the instillations that I did today of OpenVPN, all included an installation of a tap thing. However, as I report later, there were problems with attempts to use OpenVPN which may be something to do with tap stuff… , I am not sure…
XP stuff
I have tried installing and using both OpenVPN and SoftEther on a second XP machine of mine. The results are similar to the result over the last few days with another XP machine. With OpenVPN all seems fine. With SoftEther,
the connections to hide.me appear to work, but internet does not work: I get time out errors. (As before, immediately after I disconnect the SoftEther/hide.me connection, then the internet works normally)
userpass.txt (OpenVPN) (minor problem/strange phenomena)
I looked further into OpenVPN today, trying to install it on two Vista machines, one Win7 machine and one new Win 10 machine. (As part of this you need to modify the text file so that it shows your password)
I had a strange problem when trying to modify userpass.txt to have my password in this userpass text file: The strange thing was that it would not let me save the modified file. It claimed that the file was not there,
although clearly it was. : https://imgur.com/jBsEwqK
But I found a way around that problem: This work around worked: I saved the modified file somewhere else, ( on my desktop).. Then I deleted the unmodified copy in the config Folder. I then moved the modified file from
the desktop to the config Folder
So, this is strange, but probably not a problem. I do note in passing that I did not have this strange phenomena occurring in the successful instillations of OpenVPN on two XP machines
OpenVPN instillations today, ( Wednesday). Vista , Win 7 , Win 10
The instillations appeared to go OK. I think in all of them some Tap thing was installed..
( I tried 2 Vista machine instillations. On one of them, an extra instillation was offered to be done, which I accepted. This was for the instillation of some .Net thing:
https://imgur.com/f5sOu99 ,
https://imgur.com/YXBgnyg ,
https://imgur.com/EEPYDGz )
Initially no connection worked on any machine , that is to say an attempt to connect always fails: https://imgur.com/X3DZK9R , https://imgur.com/rOSM183
. This was the case for all the 4 instillations of OpenVPN that I tried today: two Vista machines, the Windows 7 machine and the new Windows 10 machine.
But later, on my Win 7 machine something strange happened. I was not using it at the time, but suddenly on its own the tray icon turned green. After that OpenVPN started working normally on that Win 7 machine. But sometimes
later, connections failed
So currently I have OpenVPN working on my XP machines and sometimes on one Windows 7 machine.
It does not work for me on Vista or Windows 10.
I have attached the log from successful connections in XP and Windows 7, along with the logs from failed Windows 10 and Vista machines .
A couple of things I noticed: when a connection is made, in the log this line is shown as red always in Vista, Win 7, and Win 10:
WARNING: this configuration may cache passwords in memory -- use the
auth-nocache option to prevent this
It is never shown in red in XP. In Win 7 it is always shown red whether the connection is successful or not.
In XP I have never seen any lines shown in red.
On the failed connection, the last but one line is shown in red.
For Vista this is:
All TAP-Windows adapters on this system are currently in use.
For Win 10 this is:
There are no TAP-Windows adapters on this system. You should be able to create a TAP-Windows adapter by going to Start -> All Programs -> TAP-Windows -> Utilities -> Add a new TAP-Windows virtual ethernet adapter
.
This is a typical error pop up that I get when restarting my Windows 10 or Vista machines : https://imgur.com/3bsPybl
That translates in English to something like:
"OpenVPNServiceInteractive" is not started.
Tasks that require Administrative access may not work
SoftEther on Win 7 and Win 10. ( and another Vista)
I tried a few SoftEther instillations today. All went well and I have now hide.me via SoftEther working on Vista , Win 7 and in Win 10 machines. ( I still cannot get it to work on any XP machine)
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