[Openswan Users] Windows vpn clients

[John A. Sullivan III]

On Thu, 2005-09-08 at 20:57 +0100, Trevor Hennion wrote:
>   > <snip>
> > OK - I'm starting to feel really stupid here.  I run
> > lsipsectool_installer.exe and it launches a cygwin installation.  I
> > first tried installing from local source (I already had cygwin
> > installed).  It finished installing.  I did not check create icons
> > because I already had cygwin icons.  It then said "nothing to install"
> > and exited.  No lsipsectool icons.  I thought maybe it wanted to install
> > Cygwin itself to be happy so I let it download from the Internet (it
> > backleveled me) and had the same results.
> > 
> > After Paul's e-mail, I thought maybe the problem was that I needed to
> > let it create icons so I tried again and clicked those boxes.  The same
> > results.
> > 
> > Then I thought my previous installation of the ebootis tool was
> > interfering.  So, I ripped out my cert and key, removed my ipsec
> > connection definitions, deleted the snapins, renamed my ipsec directory
> > and removed the Microsoft Support Tools.  I deleted all my cygwin
> > directories to create as clean a slate as possible.  I ran the
> > installation routine.  It installed cygwin and exited.  No lsipsectool.
> > 
> > I don't know what I'm doing wrong.  I even downloaded the installer from
> > sf.net/projects/lsipsectool again in case something was damaged in my
> > download (not that I'd suspect a damaged archive to install!).  What in
> > the world am I missing? I'd really like to get this installed in the
> > next few hours so I can present it as an alternative before the window
> > for this project closes.  Thanks - John
> 
> I have just tried this with a Windows XP SP2 system and it installed 
> fine. I need to create a certificate to check the connection, but the 
> install went well. No attempt to install Cygwin - not already on that 
> PC, just the desktop icon as expected.
> Until now I have been providing my customers users with a 
> python/wxPython executable that gives a simple GUI and clickable icon to 
> start the VPN on a Win2k/XP system using the vpn.ebootis.de files. It 
> does seem to suffer from the left over gateway connections that Paul 
> refers to, but the users still seem to be able to reconnect. I clean 
> them up infrequently. The gateway is still running Openswan 1.09.
<snip>
This is bizarre.  May I trouble you or Paul to e-mail the installer you
used off-list? So Cygwin is not a requirement? I wonder why my
lsipsectool_installer is installing cygwin.  There must be some
duplication of file names somewhere.  Thanks - John
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John A. Sullivan III
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