Installing Tinc on Windows Server

deep_eye deep_eye at gmx.at
Tue Jun 8 17:24:33 CEST 2010


hello, an other way is to add the tap-interface manually by open the hardware-wizard (command: hdwwiz ) and select the oemwin2k.inf (i used this under windows vista x64).

greets manuel

Craig Hillsdon schrieb:
> 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
> <mailto: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
>     <mailto:rob.townley at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
> 
>         On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 5:31 PM, Donald Pearson
>         <donaldwhpearson at gmail.com <mailto: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 <mailto: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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>                 <mailto:tinc-bounces at tinc-vpn.org>] *On Behalf Of *Rob
>                 Townley
>                 *Sent:* Monday, June 07, 2010 4:15 PM
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>                 *Subject:* Re: Installing Tinc on Windows Server
> 
>                  
> 
>                  
> 
>                 On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 3:20 PM, Miller, Don
>                 <dmiller at trane.com <mailto: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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>                  
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>                  
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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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