Windows 10: Does anyone know how to get OPENVPN to show up on Public Network properly?

Discus and support Does anyone know how to get OPENVPN to show up on Public Network properly? in Windows 10 Ask Insider to solve the problem; My Windows 7 setup was, regular internet was Private Network and OPENVPN was Public Network. When I first ran OPENVPN, I was prompted as to what kind... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Ask Insider' started by /u/ZoneIsFine, Jan 17, 2020.

  1. Does anyone know how to get OPENVPN to show up on Public Network properly?


    My Windows 7 setup was, regular internet was Private Network and OPENVPN was Public Network. When I first ran OPENVPN, I was prompted as to what kind of network it was in 7. 10 though, doesn't differentiate it seems. It appears as Unidentified Network under Public Network. I try to set permissions in firewall for how programs run depending on if it's Private or Public.

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    /u/ZoneIsFine, Jan 17, 2020
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  2. Network showing as public

    Hi Connor,

    By default, the public network location type is assigned to any new networks when they are first connected. A public network is considered to be shared with the world, with no protection between the local computer and any other computer. Therefore,
    the Windows Firewall rules associated with the public profile are the most restrictive.

    To change settings from public to private, follow the steps below:

    • Open the Locale Security Policy.
    • In the left pane, click/tap on Network List Manager Policies.
    • In the right pane of Network List Manager Policies, double click/tap on your network name
    • Click/tap on the Network Location tab.
    • Under Location type, select Private.
    • Under User permissions, select (dot) User cannot change location.
    • Click/tap on OK, and close Local Security Policy.

    Note: You must be signed in as an administrator to be able to change the network location of a network adapter.

    Let us know if you have other questions.
     
    Martin Bar, Jan 17, 2020
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  3. swec Win User
    OpenVPN is public network and access to SMB share doesn't work

    I did more investigation on OpenVPN client in W10 32bit virtual, because it is almost clean default installation of W10. There never been antivirus other than Microsoft Deffender, only several applications which should not affect anything about network.

    I have for testing two OpenVPN servers, let's name them First and Second, both connection works in that level i can ping through VPN to the server and access to other protocols.

    Both OpenVPN servers, and all clients running latest stable version 2.4.6.

    In First VPN SMB still doesn't work.

    In Second VPN SMB works perfectly.

    In First VPN are TCP ports 137, 138, 139, 445 forwarded from VPN to other older machine. But it works on other W10 client through OpenVPN and some local W10 clients, then i was believe it is all configured properly. It runs SAMBA 3.6x.

    In Second is running SAMBA 4.5.x on the server directly, available only in VPN.

    And it is the problem. Older SAMBA is not too old (it is patched) to not be able work with W10, but there was set option for WXP, to be able login- Fortnatelly, WXP are no longer needed in that network, but that option was forgotten in the configuration.

    Anyway...

    Problem was with option "max protocol = nt1", should be "max protocol = smb2", and maybe some others

    Yes, i know it was insecure. But it is very small network, with only few computers, mostly older ones.

    I still blame stupidity of W10, because it should say something like "ERROR, old insecure protocol", not just display generic and universal error message which can occurst in thousand other situations. Diagnose button never help.


    Does anyone know how to get OPENVPN to show up on Public Network properly? [​IMG]


    And mark OpenVPN network as public it is weird too. It is totally opposite, We are using VPN's almost always to be private, aren't we?


    Does anyone know how to get OPENVPN to show up on Public Network properly? [​IMG]


    Does anyone know how to get OPENVPN to show up on Public Network properly? [​IMG]
     
  4. swec Win User

    Does anyone know how to get OPENVPN to show up on Public Network properly?

    OpenVPN is public network and access to SMB share doesn't work

    Hello, i still didn't found solution for this.

    I have some Linux servers with latest versions of OpenVPN and some OpenVPN clients. OpenVPN works just fine, access from Linux or Windows 7 clients too. There is no problem. I am very sure Samba, firewall and OpenVPN server are configured correctly.

    Problem is with Windows 10 and i am not sure when it started, maybe after some last update. I don't know.

    Problem is - the network through virtual network adapter "TAP-Windows Adapter V9" is always identified as public and there is no user accessible option how i can configure it as private network.

    I found command for powershell in this thread (Set Network Location to Private or Public in Windows 10 | Windows 10 Tutorials), but it doesn't help permanently and it doesn't enable access to SMB share anyway. I can even reconfigure all unknown networks in secpol.msc as private, which i believe is very insecure behavior, but for testing i tried it. It didn't help either.

    I have for testing two notebooks and one virtual installation (QEMU). On one notebook access to Samba share works just fine, on virtual and second notebook it does't. It is same OpenVPN, same key for notebooks (why not if they are not connected at a same time) and different key for virtual.

    I am using OpenVPN GUI, which is running as W10 service under system priviledges. I have set DNS and route by push parameters in OpenVPN config on server, i have propper server key verification. There is no warning in OpenVPN log.

    When access to the SMB share doesn't work, W10 displays error message "0x80004005" which i beleive means it is blocked by local W10 firewall, because "Network discovery" is disabled for public networks.

    In one case i tried explicitly allow all trafic from and to the IPv4 address of my server in VPN for all protocols. It didn't help either.

    On virtual is no additional firewall/antivirus. On one of notebooks, which does'n work, is installed AVG, but without firewall module.


    Question is
    - how i can override this behavior?
    - how i can tell W10, my OpenVPN network is safe and private?
    - how i can do more diagnostics? Wireshark? What i should investigate?
     
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