Installing Tinc on Windows Server

[Craig Hillsdon]

This will probably be of little help, but....

I run Tinc on Windows 7 Pro x64.  The Tinc software did indeed install to
"Program Files (x86)" because it is 32 bit software and running "addtap.bat"
from the "tap-win64" folder worked without any issue at all.

It is essentially adding new (virtual) hardware (I think) so maybe it is a
permission issue - are you running the batch file with admin rights?  If it
is Server 2008 then like Win7 you may need to right click on it and "Run as
administrator".  Otherwise maybe the files are corrupt in which case try
downloading Tinc again.

Craig.

On 8 June 2010 02:26, Donald Pearson <donaldwhpearson at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>  ------------------------------
>>>>
>>>> *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
>>>>
>>>> Ingersoll Rand
>>>>
>>>> 3600 Pammel Creek Road
>>>>
>>>> La Crosse, WI 54601
>>>>
>>>> USA
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Office: 608.787.2759
>>>>
>>>> Email: dmiller at trane.com
>>>>
>>>> Website: www.trane.com
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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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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