TAP unistall issue Windows XP

[Guus Sliepen]

On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 06:56:01PM +0200, Graham Smith wrote:

> I've been experimenting with tinc to get to know it and I got to point where
> the tinc service wouldn't start anymore.
> 
> Starting with debug options gave me a  ".. not a usable Windows TAP Device..
> File not found"  report.
> 
> After a lengthy period of digging, I discovered that my registry was
> littered with connection bindings for all the previous install/uninstall's
> i'd done with the TAP Driver.
> 
> Cleaning up this mess fixed the problem and tinc was running again.

Can you tell me where in the registry these bindings are and how you cleaned
them up?

> Google found this report
> http://osdir.com/ml/network.openvpn.user/2003-12/msg00110.html 
> 
> While this report suggests that the issue has been fixed in XP, my recent
> experience suggests otherwise?

I do not remember anyone mentioning this issue, but I will try to reproduce it
and let you know the results.

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