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Hello,

I'm running into this error message upon starting OpenVPN in Windows XP SP2:

Sat Mar 26 11:30:07 2011 TAP-WIN32 device [OpenVPN] opened: \\.\Global\{3F6638EE
-986B-4430-86BC-5DE854B89F53}.tap
Sat Mar 26 11:30:07 2011 NOTE: could not get adapter index for {3F6638EE-986B-44
30-86BC-5DE854B89F53}
Sat Mar 26 11:30:07 2011 Sleeping for 10 seconds...
Sat Mar 26 11:30:17 2011 UDPv4 link local (bound): [undef]:1194
Sat Mar 26 11:30:24 2011 UDPv4 link remote: [undef]
Sat Mar 26 11:30:24 2011 Initialization Sequence Completed

The item in bold has me concerned - I've tried everything I could find via Google as well as a fresh install of Windows XP SP2.

I do see the OpenVPN Bridge in ipconfig:

Ethernet adapter OpenVPN Bridge:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : MAC Bridge Miniport
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 02-FF-3F-66-38-EE
Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.1
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.254
DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.254

Attached is my configuration file:

mode server
proto udp
port 1194
dev tap
dev-node OpenVPN Bridge
server-bridge 192.168.0.1 255.255.255.0 192.168.0.100 192.168.0.105
keepalive 10 120
tls-server
tls-auth ta.key 0
comp-lzo
client-to-client
dh dh.pem
ca ca.crt
cert cert.pem
key key.pem

Network Specifics:

This server is on 192.168.0.1, the gateway is 192.168.0.254, the subnet mask is 255.255.255.0
The OpenVPN Pool is outside of the DHCP Server scope (192.168.0.100-105.)

Out of curiosity I did another fresh install this time without installing Service Pack 2, so basically a Windows XP Professional install without SP2 and the error message still occurs.

Any suggestions?

try putting single quotes around the name of the adapter (i.e. 'OpenVPN Bridge')
Also, try opening a command window and run