Hi, > Hi there, > > I just tried it on a VM windows xp 32, default installation, just > clicked on next, next... > > Everything seems to be working as usual. I uninstalled the previous > version before running this new installer and the installation > finished with no errors. Once installed openvpn connects fine, asking > for username and password (I use radius for authentication). The icon > comes up on the status bar and all the right-click options seem to > work (Disconect, show status, View log... etc.). i guess thats not the > installer business anyway. > > What the installer didnt create for me (even though i remember seeing > it selected by default during installation although I couldnt be sure, > so maybe i unselected it while looking at the default options by > mistake, sorry) was the Start menu folder and icons. > I removed it and try again and there it was, so maybe it was just me > the first time. My guess is that the "Install Start menu entries" was unchecked by mistake the first time. > During the second installation i had the openvpn GUI running (I > uninstalled it previously but left it running disconnected), and the > installer told me it had a problem copying the file and asked me if I > wanted to cancel or try again. I mention this cause i don't know if > this is normal behavior of if it is supposed to shut it down if found > running. I finally closed it manully and clck on 'retry', then the > installer had no problem and finished properly. Yes, I stumbled upon this, too. The problem is that OpenVPN-GUI is using some of OpenVPN's files, so the uninstaller can't delete them. I'll see if there's a simple way to kill the OpenVPN-GUI process from within the uninstaller. If there is, I'll implement that in the final 2.2 release installer. > Something that i find missing (and is something that i find very > annoying) is the fact that it does create a shortcut to openvpn in > your desktop whether you want it or not. Couldn't it be possible to > have it as an option during installation (just as you have it for > 'Create start menu icons' and others)? Good idea. I'll make that optional in the final 2.2 release. > And something else i tried was to find any command line options by > running it on a ms-dos window and found there was none. Wasn't there > some options in previous versions? I ask that because i repackage the > openvpn installer some time ago for the company i work for (to include > config files, keys, etc...), and i recall there were such an options > which i used to install openvpn quietly calling it with some > arguments, am i wrong on this? You mean command-line options for the installer?
<http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Docs/Chapter3.html#3.2> <http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Docs/Chapter4.html#4.12> I tried running the installer from the command-line in silent mode and it installed OpenVPN correctly: openvpn-2.2-rc-installer-preview-5.exe /S However, I did not yet try overriding any of the default options with command-line switches. For that I need to do more research. > And i think this is it, hope it helps and thanks for the hard work! > Thanks! And many thanks to you for testing! -- Samuli Seppänen Community Manager OpenVPN Technologies, Inc irc freenode net: mattock
