How To Install Tinc On Windows 10

Example: installing tinc on Windows 2000/XP/vii/8

This example shows how to install and configure tinc on Windows 2000, XP, seven or eight. It is not a HOWTO, it is recommended that y'all read the manual as well.

Example: installing tinc on Windows 2000/XP/7/8
1. Downloading and installing tinc
2. Configuring tinc
3. Configuring the virtual network device
4. Starting tinc

Downloading and installing tinc

First, download the installer from the website. Yous don't take to salvage it, run it from its current location.

Follow the instructions of the installer. If yous already installed a TAP-Win32 or CIPE driver, you lot can uncheck the TAP-Win32 driver component.

Configuring tinc

Next, open up the explorer and go to the directory where you installed tinc. This probably is C:\Plan Files\tinc. To starting time configuring tinc for your VPN, create a new folder and requite it the name of your VPN (if you don't have a name for information technology, use vpn or make 1 upwards).

In this folder you will have to create a new file named tinc.conf.

Open this file with notepad or wordpad. In this file you lot take to specify the name of your estimator on the VPN. This doesn't take to be the name you gave to Windows, we assume you're calling it home. You can as well specify to which other tinc daemons you want to connect. You should also specify the network interface that tinc volition employ. We will create that interface later on, we will presume it is called something like VPN.

In the current directory, you have to create a directory called hosts. In this directory the host configuration files are stored. First you accept to create i for your own tinc daemon. The name of the file must be the same as the Name you specified in the tinc.conf file: home. This file should contain a Subnet variable, indicating which IP addresses your tinc daemon represents on the VPN. This is probably just a single address, we will assume the subnet is 10.20.40.i/32.

Now y'all take to generate the public and individual key for your tinc daemon. Yous do this by starting control.com. Go to the directory where tinc is installed. Kickoff tinc with the -n option set to the proper noun of your VPN and use the -K option: tincd -n vpn -K. The keypair volition be generated, and yous are asked to enter the names of the files to store them. Just press enter twice to utilise the default filenames.

At present that the keys are generated, you should requite the office a re-create of your hosts\home, and yous should become a copy of hosts\office and store it in your hosts\ directory. The configuration of tinc is finished.

Configuring the virtual network device

Next you will have to gear up the virtual network device. The installer will not create those for y'all, you take to run addtap.bat in tinc's installation directory. This will add a new virtual network device. (If you want to run more than one tinc daemon, you will need to create extra virtual network devices.)

After that, open up the Network and Punch-upwardly connections control panel, and change the name of the new interface to the same every bit y'all specified in tinc.conf, in our case to VPN.

And so, double-click on the new interface. You can enable the icon in the taskbar if you want. Click on Cyberspace Protocol and and then on Configure. Manually fix the accost to that of your estimator on the VPN, in this example x.20.40.1. The subnet mask should be set to that of the entire VPN, in this example 255.255.0.0.

Starting tinc

Now that everything has been prepare, it is fourth dimension to start tinc. Start command.com, go to tinc'south installation directory and start tinc with the right -n option: tincd -n vpn. If everything went well, it volition tell yous that it installed itself as a service and started it.