Installing Tinc on Windows Server

[Donald Pearson]

In Windows;
The 32 bit programs are in "Program Files (x86)"
The 64 bit programs are in "Program Files"

This only applies to the 64 OS, which as both.

In a 32 bit OS, it does not specify x86.

Hope this helps,
Donald

On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 7:33 PM, Rob Townley <rob.townley at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 5:31 PM, Donald Pearson <donaldwhpearson at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Don,
>>
>> I am afraid that's backwards.  If it installed in the "Program Files
>> (x86)" directory, it is the 32 bit version.
>>
>> Best,
>> Donald
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 5:31 PM, Miller, Don <dmiller at trane.com> wrote:
>>
>>>  Rob,
>>>
>>>             Yes, I am certain that I installed the 64 bit version of
>>> tinc, because it was installed in the program files (x86) folder.  I also
>>> ran addtap.bat from both the cmd window and from explorer.  Both did the
>>> same thing.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Regards
>>>
>>> Don
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>> *From:* tinc-bounces at tinc-vpn.org [mailto:tinc-bounces at tinc-vpn.org] *On
>>> Behalf Of *Rob Townley
>>> *Sent:* Monday, June 07, 2010 4:15 PM
>>> *To:* tinc at tinc-vpn.org
>>> *Subject:* Re: Installing Tinc on Windows Server
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 3:20 PM, Miller, Don <dmiller at trane.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I recently tried to install tinc on a Windows Server Enterprise machine.
>>>  This is a 64 bit OS.  When I run addtap.bat or the tapinstall.exe program,
>>> I get a “tapinstall.exe failed” error message.  Is there a way to get more
>>> information about what the cause of the failure is from the tapinstall
>>> program?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Donald J Miller
>>>
>>> Software Engineer
>>>
>>> Trane
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>>> IIRC, there are two subfolders.  One is for 64bit, the other 32bit.  Sure
>>> you ran the correct one?  Did you run addtap.bat from cmd.exe or
>>> explorer.exe?  Run it from cmd.exe.
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> IIRC, _both_ the 32bit and 64bit  subfolders are under whatever program
> files folder.  There may be two addtap.bat files.  On Linux now, so can't
> verify.
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