Routing and permissions on Windows
In this recipe, we will focus on the common error experienced by the users when the VPN client machine is running Windows without full or elevated privileges. Under certain circumstances, the OpenVPN client can connect successfully but the routes that are pushed out by the remote server are not correctly set up. This recipe will focus on how to troubleshoot and correct this error.
Getting ready
Set up the client and server certificates using the first recipe from Chapter 2, Client-server IP-only Networks. For this recipe, the server computer was running CentOS 6 Linux and OpenVPN 2.3.11. The client was running Windows 7 64bit and OpenVPN 2.3.11. Keep the configuration file basic-udp-server.conf from the Server-side routing recipe from Chapter 2, Client-server IP-only Networks, as well as the client configuration file basic-udp-client.ovpn from the Using an ifconfig-pool block recipe from Chapter 2, Client-server IP-only Networks.
How to do it...
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