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ORBI OpenVPN not working with Windows 10 client
I have setup my Orbi for OpenVPN and followed the instructions closely on both the Orbi router side and client side. For Android and iOS devices, Orbi's OpenVPN is working such that a VPN session is...
- I worked with Netgear tech support a few weeks ago on this. The problem is solved. Apparently, the configuration file was bad on the particular revision of Orbi firmware I was using. I had updated the firmware but not the configuration file. Tech support suggested replacing the Open VPN configuration file. When I did that it started working.
I had the same issue and fought with it for a few days. Turns out the path where I was saving my downloaded unzipped Windows config files per the instructions was not the path my OpenVPN installation defaulted to. Under the Advanced tab in OpenVPN GUI settings, make sure it is pointed to the folder where you dropped the config files. As soon as I fixed that, mine connected right up, I could print, remote desktop, ping, etc. as advertised.
In addition, to give you the benefit of the doubt, I tried changing the paths. I tried moving the confit files to my home directory, which is where OpenVPN defaults. No dice.
This is a router issue. That Netgear needs to fix. As an aside, I think routing on the Orbis is broken. I tried setting a route and when I tried doing a tracert on a Windows system in the same subnet as the Orbi it just times out. It doesn’t even make it to the first hop which is in the same subnet. I can do this on a system located in the same subnet as my other Netgear router and it works just fine.
This is a router issue. That Netgear needs to fix. As an aside, I think routing on the Orbis is broken. I tried setting a route and when I tried doing a tracert on a Windows system in the same subnet as the Orbi it just times out. It doesn’t even make it to the first hop which is in the same subnet. I can do this on a system located in the same subnet as my other Netgear router and it works just fine.
Im having the exact same issue, works fine from android but dont get assigned an ip address on windows 10.
Last summer, my first attempts to use OpenVPN ran into several snags, but it has been working for 10 months on three Orbi systems (one 2.3.5.30, one 2.5.1.8, and one Voxel). Just to double check, today I started up my phone hot spot, connected Windows 10 laptop to hot spot, and connected to my home Orbi using OpenVPN. The log file is attached. (The first line mentions tunxten because I use tunXten as my OpenVPN "manager" to select which of them I want each time. I can't remember now why I gave up on using OpenVPN by itself. Once tunXten "solved my problems", I never looked back.)
IP address assigned from the DHCP pool (because this is a Windows "tap" connection, not an iPhone/Android "tun" connection). Pinged my desktop attached to the Orbi. Connected to the Orbi web interface, which clearly showed my laptop connected as "VPN".
Last summer, I "took a deep breath" and started over. Found that I had downloaded a Windows OpenVPN client different than the one the instructions said to. (I "knew better.") May also have had trouble with the config file location. The last time I did exactly what they said.
I lack the skill to diagnose what is causing the issue, but I am pretty confident that Orbi OpenVPN "works", at least with Android, Linux, and Windows 10.
encryptix wrote:Im having the exact same issue, works fine from android but dont get assigned an ip address on windows 10.
Two different config files to be used for these two platforms.
Have renamed the OVPN Ethernet-adapter to NETGEAR-VPN as required by the Netgear generated one for Windows (doing TAP)?
I would love to see a log file from the OpenVPN that fails.
