Re: [Openvpn-users] One client only does not work: "All TAP-Win32 adapters on this system are currently in use"

[Mathias Sundman <mathias@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 7 Jan 2005, Martijn Lievaart wrote:

> Hello list,
>
> We have been using OpenVPN for a long time now, and recently introduced
> 2.0 and certificates besides our existing 1.6/shared-keys infrastructure.
> This has mainly been a snap and it works like a charm for the two clients
> I connected upto now on 2.0.
>
> The third client however, gets the following error in his log:
>
> Thu Jan 06 11:31:23 2005 us=174944 PUSH: Received control message:
> 'PUSH_REPLY,route 192.168.1.0 255.255.255.0,route 10.8.0.1,ping
> 10,ping-restart 60,ifconfig 10.8.0.10 10.8.0.9'
> Thu Jan 06 11:31:23 2005 us=175042 OPTIONS IMPORT: timers and/or timeouts
> modified
> Thu Jan 06 11:31:23 2005 us=175061 OPTIONS IMPORT: --ifconfig/up options
> modified
> Thu Jan 06 11:31:23 2005 us=175077 OPTIONS IMPORT: route options modified
> Thu Jan 06 11:31:23 2005 us=223330 CreateFile failed on TAP device:
> \\.\Global\{85111DDB-D1DC-4A6E-81A4-CFC6B443038D}.tap
> Thu Jan 06 11:31:23 2005 us=223384 All TAP-Win32 adapters on this system
> are currently in use.
> Thu Jan 06 11:31:23 2005 us=223399 Exiting
>
> I cannot find anything on Google about this, anyone have any idea what's
> wrong? I can post the config if needed, but I don't think it has much
> relation to this error. The same config and certificate work on other
> machines.

That usually means that an other openvpn process is already running using 
the TAP interface. If this is intensional you can create a second TAP 
interface from the Start-menu.

Check in the Task Manager if there is any other openvpn processes running. 
Perhaps the OpenVPN Service has been started by mistake.

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