Hi Ralf,
Ralf Hildebrandt wrote:
After installation of openvpn-2.1.1, I was able to start openvpn-gui as
NORMAL user (not admin). No problems there.
But in order to actually *use* openvpn, I have to start openvpn-gui via
"run as admin". When I would do that, openvpn gui would report:
CreateProcess failed, exe='C:\Program Files\OpenVPN\bin\openvpn.exe'
cmdline='openvpn --version' dir='c:\Program Files\OpenVPN\bin'
Alas, this path does indeed not exist, since OpenVPN installed itself
into:
C:\Program Files (x86)\OpenVPN
not
C:\Program Files\OpenVPN
so I deinstalled everything and during reinstallation I overrode the
default installation path to:
C:\Program Files\OpenVPN
and after that it would work, even when run as admin.
What's wrong here? Why does it choose C:\Program Files (x86)\OpenVPN
during installation but expects C:\Program Files\OpenVPN during runtime?
see for example
http://www.sevenforums.com/general-discussion/30857-installing-program-files-x86.html
openvpn is a 32bit program using a 64bit driver; the windows 7 installer
decides to place openvpn in the 32bit folder unless you override this.
I guess the proper solution is to build a 64bit version of openvpn for
windows Vista/7/2003 64bit
(I'm including the -devel list to see if anybody has any comments about
that :))
cheers,
JJK
