Installation: error message when generating the keys..

[Guus Sliepen]

On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 10:17:55PM -0500, Pablo B wrote:

> hi I don't have experience at all with networks but I was triyng to
> install and configure tinc as a platform for multiplayer games that
> need to be run on a LAN.  The computers run with Windows XP so I
> followed the example posted in the website for installation in
> windows.  Everything is pretty clear and step-by-step, but when trying
> to generate the keys I get the following message:
> 
> Cannot open config file C:\tinc/vpn/tinc.conf: No such directory
> Generating 1024 bits keys:
> ...................................++++++++ p
> ..+++++++++++++ q
> Done.
> Please enter the file to save private RSA key to [C:\tinc/vpn/rsa_key.priv]:
> 
> But the I created the files as indicated and they are in the right
> directory. tinc.conf in C/:tinc/vpn and 'home' in C/:tinc/vpn/hosts

I hope you mean C:/tinc/vpn instead of C/:tinc/vpn. If you do, then do
"cd C:\" before you do "tincd -n vpn -K", that might work.

I guess I'll have to change tinc to convert every / to a \ in paths,
because the behaviour is just plain weird.

-- 
Met vriendelijke groet / with kind regards,
    Guus Sliepen <guus at sliepen.eu.org>
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