Openvpn: An error ocurred installing tap device Solution

An error occurred while installing openvpn: "An error ocurred installing the tap device driver"

The cause of this problem is: this error occurs when the TAP-Win32 network adapter has been disabled, Windows hardware installation Verification Failed. It will cause failures in the subsequent openvpn connection failures.

Solving this problem is simple:

1. Skip the current error message and click "Next" to complete the installation. (Be sure to have the Administrator permission. Users of Windows 7 or later OS may need to use compatiblity mode)

2. At this time, the Start menu item of openvpn has been built, and "(Start> All Programs> openvpn> utilities)" is found.Add a new tap virtual Ethernet Adapter", Click to run

3. This script will install the tap device manually:

Rem Add a new tap virtual Ethernet Adapter
"C: \ Program Files \ openvpn \ bin \ tapinstall.exe" Install "C: \ Program Files \ openvpn \ driver \ oemwin2k. inf" tap0901 (posted by Chen yunwen)

4. Ignore the warning and click "continue ". Make sure that the TAP Win32 adapter V9 is correctly installed. After this step is complete, you can see a local connection in Control Panel-> network connection, property is TAP-Win32 adapter (if there are repeated installation before and after, you can use the delete all tap virtual Ethernet Adapter tool in utilities to clear it)

5. Finally, copy your ovpn file, CRT file, and key file to the config directory of the open VPN installation path, and then run openvpn-Gui in the bin to connect to it.