OPEN VPN Data plane issues- Routing in Windows 7 Home bug?

[delaneybob]

Hi,
Interesting issue here.

I have a Synology DSM w/ VPn that works like a champ- as long as Windows 7 Ultimate is the client whewre OpenVPN client (2.2) is installed. However, 2 separate PC's on Windows 7 Home Premium connect according to Open VPN but I can not ping, telnet, HTTP nor FTP to the server. It appears that the dataplane is not setup correctly. I can manually disconnect the suspect connection on the server and the client sees that and reestablishes the VPN but still cannot pass traffic

In looking at route print info-the VPN network does not appear fully setup
1. The network route to the VPN network does not exist (172.16.0.0)
2. the route metric for the VPN routes are >250

it should look like this (172 network is VPN)

Active Routes:
Network Destination Netmask Gateway Interface Metric
0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 192.168.1.254 192.168.1.251 2
127.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 On-link 127.0.0.1 306
127.0.0.1 255.255.255.255 On-link 127.0.0.1 306
127.255.255.255 255.255.255.255 On-link 127.0.0.1 306
172.16.0.0 255.255.255.0 172.16.0.5 172.16.0.6 30
172.16.0.1 255.255.255.255 172.16.0.5 172.16.0.6 30
172.16.0.4 255.255.255.252 On-link 172.16.0.6 286
172.16.0.6 255.255.255.255 On-link 172.16.0.6 286
172.16.0.7 255.255.255.255 On-link 172.16.0.6 286

[maikcat]

are you running the gui with admin rights?

Michael.

[delaneybob]

Yes- not as administrator (i.e. right click run as administrator) but as a user with admin rights.

That is the case on both the PCs that work and do not

[maikcat]

can you post logs from your clients?

Michael.

[delaneybob]

Got it fixed- and DOH!- IT'S IN THE README FILE.

The Run as admin must be right clicked or assigned to the shortcut