Installing VPN with Win Xp

[pradheep]

hi

i tried installing OpenVPN openvpn-2.1_rc15-install.exe on an WinXP machine.
earlier installed the same with my team and everything works fine.
not able to understand wat it tells

it wud be of great help if someone could help em out.

Tue Jan 11 10:33:25 2011 OpenVPN 2.1.4 i686-pc-mingw32 [SSL] [LZO2] [PKCS11] built on Nov 8 2010
Tue Jan 11 10:33:25 2011 WARNING: No server certificate verification method has been enabled. See http://openvpn.net/howto.html#mitm for more info.
Tue Jan 11 10:33:25 2011 NOTE: OpenVPN 2.1 requires '--script-security 2' or higher to call user-defined scripts or executables
Tue Jan 11 10:33:26 2011 WARNING: this configuration may cache passwords in memory -- use the auth-nocache option to prevent this
Tue Jan 11 10:33:27 2011 WARNING: normally if you use --mssfix and/or --fragment, you should also set --tun-mtu 1500 (currently it is 1400)
Tue Jan 11 10:33:27 2011 Control Channel MTU parms [ L:1441 D:138 EF:38 EB:0 ET:0 EL:0 ]


note:
* tried disabling windows firewall and the same thing happened.

pradheep

[gladiatr72]

Hello, Pradheep.

The first thing I would suggest is that if you have associates that have a functional configuration would be to verify that you've got everything in place.

Beyond that, please post your client config.

Regards,
Stephen

[pradheep]

Hi Stephen

thanks for the response. as told i have already set the same for other teammates and it works perfect.
and all the others also use windows xp. tats the reason i cudnt figure out what really went wrong.
the config files are the same which is correct and working for the vpn already installed.
so might not be the case that the config file is corrupt or wrong.

need suggestions on that pls..

[krzee]

get a newer openvpn version
http://www.openvpn.net/download

if you are still having problems paste your config (without comments) and your entire logfile with verb 5

[pradheep]

hi

i installed the latest version of open vpn and no hope.

this is the config file
client
proto udp
dev tun
ca ca.crt
dh dh2048.pem
cert spadmanabhan.crt
key spadmanabhan.key
remote 91.183.40.125 1194
cipher BF-CBC
user nobody
group nobody
verb 2
mute 20
tun-mtu 1400
keepalive 10 120
persist-key
persist-tun
float
resolv-retry infinite
nobind

regards
Pradheep

[krzee]

and your entire logfile with verb 5

[pradheep]

Wed Jan 12 13:54:04 2011 OpenVPN 2.2-beta5 i686-pc-mingw32 [SSL] [LZO2] [PKCS11] built on Nov 30 2010
Wed Jan 12 13:54:04 2011 WARNING: No server certificate verification method has been enabled. See http://openvpn.net/howto.html#mitm for more info.
Wed Jan 12 13:54:04 2011 NOTE: OpenVPN 2.1 requires '--script-security 2' or higher to call user-defined scripts or executables
Wed Jan 12 13:54:23 2011 WARNING: this configuration may cache passwords in memory -- use the auth-nocache option to prevent this
Wed Jan 12 13:54:24 2011 WARNING: normally if you use --mssfix and/or --fragment, you should also set --tun-mtu 1500 (currently it is 1400)
Wed Jan 12 13:54:24 2011 Control Channel MTU parms [ L:1441 D:138 EF:38 EB:0 ET:0 EL:0 ]
Wed Jan 12 13:54:24 2011 Data Channel MTU parms [ L:1441 D:1441 EF:41 EB:4 ET:0 EL:0 ]
Wed Jan 12 13:54:24 2011 Local Options hash (VER=V4): '57657c3f'
Wed Jan 12 13:54:24 2011 Expected Remote Options hash (VER=V4): '778eeec5'
Wed Jan 12 13:54:24 2011 UDPv4 link local: [undef]
Wed Jan 12 13:54:24 2011 UDPv4 link remote: 91.183.40.125:1194

[krzee]

that certainly is not the entire logfile at verb 5

also, why do you have tun-mtu 1400

[pradheep]

this is wats there in the log file.
not sure abt why added. but was there which is supplied by the client.

[pradheep]

thanks all
it worked finally.

[krzee]

what fixed it?