OpenVPN - "The system tried to join a drive to a directory on a joined drive"

[andy_d]

Hi. I went through the steps of setting up OpenVPN using the How To Geek tutorial I found online with some modifications to address some of the outdated steps

As far as I can tell, everything seems to be set up properly. When I try connecting my laptop, I get the following error....

The system tried to join a drive to a directory on a joined drive

It seems like it can be a firewall issue but not sure how to address this since OpenVPN is on the router?

Anyone know what I may need to do to get this working?

 

[TravisJBennett]

How To Geek tutorial...

this one?

Andy, you saved me some time, as I was just trying to figure out the same thing, and needed an ask the audience. Thanks!

So yeah, we're in the same boat here. I'm trying to set up an Asus RT-AC68U with DD-WRT v24-sp2 (05/27/14) std - build 24160M. OpenVPN seems to run fine, and I used the tutorial above to the same solution (well, after I had to edit the router's config file to resolve an error of both Server and Server-Bridge lines being present, which seems to be an error of the GUI here...). I'm trying to connect from a Windows 7 Ultimate x64 machine.

So yeah, I'm getting the same error as you now. Log from the OpenVPN Client...

Sat Dec 27 15:28:47 2014 us=79620 OpenVPN 2.3.6 x86_64-w64-mingw32 [SSL (OpenSSL)] [LZO] [PKCS11] [IPv6] built on Dec  1 2014
Sat Dec 27 15:28:47 2014 us=79620 library versions: OpenSSL 1.0.1j 15 Oct 2014, LZO 2.08
Enter Management Password:
Sat Dec 27 15:28:47 2014 us=80620 MANAGEMENT: TCP Socket listening on [AF_INET]127.0.0.1:25340
Sat Dec 27 15:28:47 2014 us=80620 Need hold release from management interface, waiting...
Sat Dec 27 15:28:47 2014 us=482643 MANAGEMENT: Client connected from [AF_INET]127.0.0.1:25340
Sat Dec 27 15:28:47 2014 us=582649 MANAGEMENT: CMD 'state on'
Sat Dec 27 15:28:47 2014 us=582649 MANAGEMENT: CMD 'log all on'
Sat Dec 27 15:28:51 2014 us=933898 MANAGEMENT: CMD 'hold off'
Sat Dec 27 15:28:51 2014 us=972900 MANAGEMENT: CMD 'hold release'
Sat Dec 27 15:28:52 2014 us=222915 LZO compression initialized
Sat Dec 27 15:28:52 2014 us=222915 Control Channel MTU parms [ L:1560 D:140 EF:40 EB:0 ET:0 EL:0 ]
Sat Dec 27 15:28:52 2014 us=222915 Socket Buffers: R=[8192->8192] S=[8192->8192]
Sat Dec 27 15:28:52 2014 us=223915 MANAGEMENT: >STATE:1419712132,RESOLVE,,,
Sat Dec 27 15:28:52 2014 us=262917 Data Channel MTU parms [ L:1560 D:1450 EF:60 EB:135 ET:0 EL:0 AF:3/1 ]
Sat Dec 27 15:28:52 2014 us=262917 Local Options String: 'V4,dev-type tun,link-mtu 1560,tun-mtu 1500,proto TCPv4_CLIENT,comp-lzo,cipher AES-128-CBC,auth SHA1,keysize 128,key-method 2,tls-client'
Sat Dec 27 15:28:52 2014 us=262917 Expected Remote Options String: 'V4,dev-type tun,link-mtu 1560,tun-mtu 1500,proto TCPv4_SERVER,comp-lzo,cipher AES-128-CBC,auth SHA1,keysize 128,key-method 2,tls-server'
Sat Dec 27 15:28:52 2014 us=262917 Local Options hash (VER=V4): 'bc07730e'
Sat Dec 27 15:28:52 2014 us=262917 Expected Remote Options hash (VER=V4): 'b695cb4a'
Sat Dec 27 15:28:52 2014 us=262917 Attempting to establish TCP connection with [AF_INET]70.61.70.126:1194 [nonblock]
Sat Dec 27 15:28:52 2014 us=262917 MANAGEMENT: >STATE:1419712132,TCP_CONNECT,,,
Sat Dec 27 15:29:02 2014 us=273489 TCP: connect to [AF_INET]70.61.70.126:1194 failed, will try again in 5 seconds: The system tried to join a drive to a directory on a joined drive.  
Sat Dec 27 15:29:02 2014 us=277490 SIGUSR1[soft,init_instance] received, process restarting
Sat Dec 27 15:29:02 2014 us=279490 MANAGEMENT: >STATE:1419712142,RECONNECTING,init_instance,,
Sat Dec 27 15:29:02 2014 us=279490 Restart pause, 5 second(s)
Sat Dec 27 15:29:07 2014 us=279776 Re-using SSL/TLS context
Sat Dec 27 15:29:07 2014 us=279776 LZO compression initialized
Sat Dec 27 15:29:07 2014 us=280776 Control Channel MTU parms [ L:1560 D:140 EF:40 EB:0 ET:0 EL:0 ]
Sat Dec 27 15:29:07 2014 us=280776 Socket Buffers: R=[8192->8192] S=[8192->8192]
Sat Dec 27 15:29:07 2014 us=280776 Data Channel MTU parms [ L:1560 D:1450 EF:60 EB:135 ET:0 EL:0 AF:3/1 ]
Sat Dec 27 15:29:07 2014 us=280776 Local Options String: 'V4,dev-type tun,link-mtu 1560,tun-mtu 1500,proto TCPv4_CLIENT,comp-lzo,cipher AES-128-CBC,auth SHA1,keysize 128,key-method 2,tls-client'
Sat Dec 27 15:29:07 2014 us=280776 Expected Remote Options String: 'V4,dev-type tun,link-mtu 1560,tun-mtu 1500,proto TCPv4_SERVER,comp-lzo,cipher AES-128-CBC,auth SHA1,keysize 128,key-method 2,tls-server'
Sat Dec 27 15:29:07 2014 us=281776 Local Options hash (VER=V4): 'bc07730e'
Sat Dec 27 15:29:07 2014 us=281776 Expected Remote Options hash (VER=V4): 'b695cb4a'
Sat Dec 27 15:29:07 2014 us=281776 Attempting to establish TCP connection with [AF_INET]70.61.70.126:1194 [nonblock]
Sat Dec 27 15:29:07 2014 us=281776 MANAGEMENT: >STATE:1419712147,TCP_CONNECT,,,
Sat Dec 27 15:29:17 2014 us=286348 TCP: connect to [AF_INET]70.61.70.126:1194 failed, will try again in 5 seconds: The system tried to join a drive to a directory on a joined drive.  
Sat Dec 27 15:29:17 2014 us=286348 SIGUSR1[soft,init_instance] received, process restarting
Sat Dec 27 15:29:17 2014 us=287348 MANAGEMENT: >STATE:1419712157,RECONNECTING,init_instance,,
Sat Dec 27 15:29:17 2014 us=287348 Restart pause, 5 second(s)
Sat Dec 27 15:29:18 2014 us=287405 SIGTERM[hard,init_instance] received, process exiting
Sat Dec 27 15:29:18 2014 us=287405 MANAGEMENT: >STATE:1419712158,EXITING,init_instance,,

And yes, I am shooting for a Bridging VPN connection. As seen above, I switched everything over from UDP to TCP, with still no success.

Andy_D, the only thing I can suggest is I just installed Shibby's build of Tomato on a router for my family, and the OpenVPN Server setup on it worked flawlessly. No trouble at all, and now I can easily check on their router.

I'd prefer DD-WRT myself too, so if anyone has an suggestions on how to fix DD-WRT's OpenVPN for this error, please help!

 

[andy_d]

Hey Travis. I actually have gotten a little farther since I posted about this earlier today.

The reason why I was getting the error is because of two reasons ( not sure which one is really the reason but I corrected both of them at the time )...

1) I had a typo in the client config

2) Even though I was certain I matched the settings as they appear in the tutorial I did miss one of the check boxes. Even though it wasn't related to this error, I also had issues because I forgot to change the encryption setting to match what I had put in the client config ovpn file

So yeah, most of the issues I ran into were due to my own mistakes. I would make sure you have a proper client ovpn and that your router is set up properly

As of now, I can actually get an IP from my network and can remote into any of my pcs on the network. I just can't actually browse the internet from the local laptop. From what I understand, it's likely because the local and remote networks are on the same 192.168.1.x network so routing becomes an issue. I'm going to check into that later and report back.