Automatic TINC configuration & launch (win)

[Guus Sliepen]

On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 12:52:34PM +0100, EleGoS wrote:

> >Which variables do you want to automatically fill in? 
> >  
> exactly what the program asks (i.e. the file without C:, but I assume 
> that sources are up-to-date and no need to exclude C:)

Ah. But tinc should detect whether you run it from a shell, or if you
run it from a script or some other program, and it should only ask for
filenames if you run it from a shell. I don't know if it can detect it
correctly on Windows though, but you should try it out.

> >I don't know Dev-CPP. You should try compiling it by starting a MinGW
> >shell and type:
> >
> >cd tinc-1.0.5
> >./configure
> >make
> 
> I haven't got a linux machine (my linux laptop was robbed some days ago :( )
> Do you know a good compiler/linker for windows? Maybe GCC? But I don't 
> know the same procedure for OS windows (it's so easy in linux :P )

You should install MinGW, in comes with GCC. GCC is required for tinc.
If you have set up MinGW properly, you should be able to compile it the
same way you compile it under Linux.

> >>Another problem is device-related: I want to auto-rename the connection, 
> >>but I have no idea on how to do that (even DOS or VB.NET commands). I've 
> >>tried opening OemWin2k.inf, but no luck...
> >
> >I have no idea how you should do that...
> 
> That's not a real problem, is really easy to tell a windows-user where 
> to search and edit (tutorial step-by-step) :P

Note that if you don't add Device = ... and Interface = ... to
tinc.conf, tinc will try to autodetect the TAP device, regardless of how
the user named it.

-- 
Met vriendelijke groet / with kind regards,
     Guus Sliepen <guus at tinc-vpn.org>
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