Re: [Openvpn-devel] [Openvpn-users] TAP installation Problem (2.1.3) on Windows 2000

[Samuli Seppänen]

> Hi,
>
> 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.
>
> Samuli: can you find it on the internal build servers?
>
> gert
>   
It's here:



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Re: [Openvpn-devel] [Openvpn-users] TAP installation Problem (2.1.3) on Windows 2000

[Jan Just Keijser]

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

[Gert Doering]

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
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Re: [Openvpn-devel] [Openvpn-users] TAP installation Problem (2.1.3) on Windows 2000

[Jan Just Keijser]

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