Some problems with Windows 8.1 Preview

[qupfer]

Hi, I installed Windows 8.1 today and after that, I have some touble with my openVPN.

The first was, all TAP-devices a removed. Okay, run the delete & add TAP script and this "problem" was solved.

But for the secon one, i have no idea. After a reboot, i can connect to my server and all is okay. But if i disconnect and try to connect later, nothing happens. The status shows nothing and in the log, i found only this:

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Thu Jun 27 01:10:38 2013 OpenVPN 2.3.2 x86_64-w64-mingw32 [SSL (OpenSSL)] [LZO] [PKCS11] [eurephia] [IPv6] built on Jun  3 2013
Thu Jun 27 01:10:38 2013 ERROR: could not not read Management password from stdin
Thu Jun 27 01:10:38 2013 Exiting due to fatal error

The config is:

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client
dev tun
proto udp6
remote  2001:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:910a:bcde 1195
resolv-retry infinite
nobind
persist-key
persist-tun
ca  "C:\\Program Files\\OpenVPN\\config\\usvpn\\ca.crt"
cert  "C:\\Program Files\\OpenVPN\\config\\usvpn\\midgard.crt"
key  "C:\\Program Files\\OpenVPN\\config\\usvpn\\midgard.key"
comp-lzo
cipher AES-256-CBC
# Silence repeating messages
;mute 20

Has anybody any idea?

Thanks and sorry for my english.

[qupfer]

No Edit-Button?

It's look like a (new?) problem with the GUI. I can start my vpn-connections from commandline without any problems.

[jpichie]

I can confirm this issue.
Trying openVPN GUI 2.3 on Windows 8.1
GUI does not work, Administrator CMD command line works.

[rescapind]

I have same problem on my Windows 8.1 Preview.
The GUI works sometimes. Most of the time, it doesn't.
Running by cmd is ok.

[rescapind]

Running OVN GUI in Windows 7 compatibility mode is ok too.

[wolfgangihloff]

The Windows 7 compat mode does not work for me either on Windows 8.1, however using the administrative terminal works fine. So it seems to be a UI bug only, not prompting me for the Private Key Password.

[badbod]

same here windows 8.1 preview x86_64 - openvpn 2.3.2

windows 7 compatibility mode does not work for me.

running "openvpn connection.ovpn" from admin command prompt works fine.

Just tested as I was typing this and the gui worked! Disconnect and try again, failed. It is the first and only time it has worked so far. Below is the usual log response.

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OpenVPN 2.3.2 x86_64-w64-mingw32 [SSL (OpenSSL)] [LZO] [PKCS11] [eurephia] [IPv6] built on Jun  3 2013
ERROR: could not not read Management password from stdin
Exiting due to fatal error

[vlhelou]

I also had this problem on my computer. The VPN was trying to use the network card wrong, I uninstalled the other virtual network cards and begin work

[mat.h]

I've had many different problems with different versions of OpenVPN on 8.1. I tried everything I could find documentation on to get things working at least in OpenVPN gui and rarely had success. However! I have found that OpenVPN Portable works 100% reliably for me on Windows 8.1. Hope this saves someone some time.

[dcotruta]

I can confirm this; oddly enough it seems to connect just fine after several failed attempts.
On another note, although this may be unrelated - I have also noticed that the default order of DNS resolution (in advanced network settings) no longer puts the TAP interface at the top after installation.

[omoura]

check registry UAC:

reg.exe query HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System /v EnableLUA

if 1 please change it to 0

[chipitsine]

can you try the following patch https://github.com/chipitsine/openvpn/c ... af22746852 ?
or compiled binaries from http://openvpn.skbkontur.ru/beta/ ?

[msukhotin]

can you try the following patch https://github.com/chipitsine/openvpn/c ... af22746852 ?
or compiled binaries from http://openvpn.skbkontur.ru/beta/ ?

Haven't solved the problem

[DonBrill]

I'm having the same problem with Win 8.1 64 bit and current OVPN client (both GUI & admin cmd.) Same setup worked fine on Win 8.0. Tried removing/reinstall - no change. Portable client is functional (although doesn't seem to do a good job of closing the connection.)