Re: [Openvpn-devel] [Openvpn-users] TAP installation Problem (2.1.3) on Windows 2000
Hi Gert (and David), Gert Doering wrote: Hi, On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 05:47:40PM +0200, Gert Doering wrote: On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 05:28:13PM +0200, Jan Just Keijser wrote: WHy is that? it's a (minor) mistake in how openvpn 2.1.3 is packaged: This is not a mistake (as in "oops, we didn't know"), but was unavoidable since the latest WDK is needed to properly support signed drivers for Win7, and that version does not support Win2k anymore. OTOH, there *should* be a Windows 2000 install.exe, but right now I cannot find it on the download page either - James did build it, with the old WDK/DDK, but somewhere in the release process it must have fallen through the cracks. David found it: http://secure.openvpn.net/win/openvpn-2.1.3-install.exe (XP to 7) http://secure.openvpn.net/win/openvpn-2.1.3-install-win2k.exe (w2k) thanks for sorting this out so quickly! I did not know that version still existed (and I'm an old-fashioned wk2 user ;-)) cheers, JJK
Re: [Openvpn-devel] [Openvpn-users] TAP installation Problem (2.1.3) on Windows 2000
Hi, On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 05:47:40PM +0200, Gert Doering wrote: > On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 05:28:13PM +0200, Jan Just Keijser wrote: > > > WHy is that? > > it's a (minor) mistake in how openvpn 2.1.3 is packaged: > > This is not a mistake (as in "oops, we didn't know"), but was unavoidable > since the latest WDK is needed to properly support signed drivers for > Win7, and that version does not support Win2k anymore. > > OTOH, there *should* be a Windows 2000 install.exe, but right now > I cannot find it on the download page either - James did build it, > with the old WDK/DDK, but somewhere in the release process it must > have fallen through the cracks. David found it: http://secure.openvpn.net/win/openvpn-2.1.3-install.exe (XP to 7) http://secure.openvpn.net/win/openvpn-2.1.3-install-win2k.exe (w2k) gert -- USENET is *not* the non-clickable part of WWW! //www.muc.de/~gert/ Gert Doering - Munich, Germany g...@greenie.muc.de fax: +49-89-35655025g...@net.informatik.tu-muenchen.de pgpkFnwgqUOd1.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [Openvpn-devel] [Openvpn-users] TAP installation Problem (2.1.3) on Windows 2000
Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: During installation, no TAP32 adapter is being installed and the addtap.bat returns an error: d:\program files\openvpn\bin\tapinstall.exe is not a valid Win32 application. WHy is that? it's a (minor) mistake in how openvpn 2.1.3 is packaged: openvpn 2.1.1 comes with tapinstall.exe v6.0.6001.18000, named 'Windows Codename Longhorn DDK driver' openvpn 2.1.3 comes with tapinstall.exe v6.1.7600.16385, named 'Windows Win 7 DDK provider' Apparently this later version of tapinstall.exe is not recognized as a valid win32 application, most likely because Microsoft stopped supporting Windows 2000 some time ago. Note that OpenVPN 2.2 will also no longer include Windows 2000 support, as was discussed somewhere late august. The nice fix would be to include the older version of tapinstall.exe in an update of the windows installer package. A quick hack is to copy over the tapinstall.exe from the 2.1.1 installer and then run 'tapinstall' again (from the OpenVPN menu option in the 'Start' menu) HTH, JJK