Re: [stunnel-users] Getting Stunnel to Work Under Windows 7 64-bit
I should note that I have been running stunnel 4.45 on Windows 7 since Oct-2011 with no problems whatsoever. It has been running non-stop on Windows 7 to this date with no problems. I have not upgraded to the latest because I have not been able to have time to test the FIPS changes with my configuration yet. Brian
Brian, Are you running Stunnel as a service or an app under Windows 7? I'm unable to run it as a service without running into a host of user interface issues. However, it runs terrifically as an app for me. I did a search to see if I could find any information on why the service has issues. I didn't find all that much, but I did stumble upon the following comment about services in general, which I found interesting: "They run in an entirely different console starting with Vista. As a result of running in a different console, services cannot interact with the desktop. So essentially there is no direct UI support. You typically have to code a sibling UI application that does run as a normal program and uses some mechanism (named pipes for example) to communicate with the service." Regards, Thomas On 6/11/2012 8:54 AM, Brian Wilkins wrote:
I should note that I have been running stunnel 4.45 on Windows 7 since Oct-2011 with no problems whatsoever. It has been running non-stop on Windows 7 to this date with no problems. I have not upgraded to the latest because I have not been able to have time to test the FIPS changes with my configuration yet.
Brian
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I run it as a service with no problem. On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 2:41 PM, Thomas Eifert <kxkvi@lavabit.com> wrote:
Brian,
Are you running Stunnel as a service or an app under Windows 7?
I'm unable to run it as a service without running into a host of user interface issues. However, it runs terrifically as an app for me.
I did a search to see if I could find any information on why the service has issues. I didn't find all that much, but I did stumble upon the following comment about services in general, which I found interesting:
"They run in an entirely different console starting with Vista. As a result of running in a different console, services cannot interact with the desktop. So essentially there is no direct UI support. You typically have to code a sibling UI application that does run as a normal program and uses some mechanism (named pipes for example) to communicate with the service."
Regards,
Thomas
On 6/11/2012 8:54 AM, Brian Wilkins wrote:
I should note that I have been running stunnel 4.45 on Windows 7 since Oct-2011 with no problems whatsoever. It has been running non-stop on Windows 7 to this date with no problems. I have not upgraded to the latest because I have not been able to have time to test the FIPS changes with my configuration yet.
Brian
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Brian. Okay, I managed to get 4.45 working as a service. My only question is, how are your bringing up the Stunnel status window? Even with taskbar = yes, I don't get an icon in the notification area like I do with Windows XP. Thanks. Thomas On 6/13/2012 2:08 PM, Brian Wilkins wrote:
I run it as a service with no problem.
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 2:41 PM, Thomas Eifert <kxkvi@lavabit.com <mailto:kxkvi@lavabit.com>> wrote:
Brian,
Are you running Stunnel as a service or an app under Windows 7?
I'm unable to run it as a service without running into a host of user interface issues. However, it runs terrifically as an app for me.
I did a search to see if I could find any information on why the service has issues. I didn't find all that much, but I did stumble upon the following comment about services in general, which I found interesting:
"They run in an entirely different console starting with Vista. As a result of running in a different console, services cannot interact with the desktop. So essentially there is no direct UI support. You typically have to code a sibling UI application that does run as a normal program and uses some mechanism (named pipes for example) to communicate with the service."
Regards,
Thomas
On 6/11/2012 8:54 AM, Brian Wilkins wrote:
I should note that I have been running stunnel 4.45 on Windows 7 since Oct-2011 with no problems whatsoever. It has been running non-stop on Windows 7 to this date with no problems. I have not upgraded to the latest because I have not been able to have time to test the FIPS changes with my configuration yet.
Brian
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Thomas Eifert wrote:
Okay, I managed to get 4.45 working as a service. My only question is, how are your bringing up the Stunnel status window?
You can't do it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shatter_attack
Even with taskbar = yes, I don't get an icon in the notification area like I do with Windows XP.
Separate GUI process running as current user on Windows is on my TODO list. http://www.stunnel.org/?page=sdf_todo I expect to be able to implement it in Q4 2012. Some of the required infrastructure is already in the code (signal pipe). Of course you are free to sponsor the feature to get it even faster. Mike
Michael is right. You really do not need the GUI as there isn't much you can do except maybe watch the logs and reload the configuration. You can save off the peer certificate, but I doubt that is used regularly and is more of a debug function in my opinion. You can reload the configuration by stopping/starting the service. As far as watching the logs, you can install GNU Utilities for Win32 and then tail the logs: http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 10:53 PM, Thomas Eifert <kxkvi@lavabit.com> wrote:
Brian.
Okay, I managed to get 4.45 working as a service. My only question is, how are your bringing up the Stunnel status window?
Even with taskbar = yes, I don't get an icon in the notification area like I do with Windows XP.
Thanks.
Thomas
On 6/13/2012 2:08 PM, Brian Wilkins wrote:
I run it as a service with no problem.
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 2:41 PM, Thomas Eifert <kxkvi@lavabit.com <mailto:kxkvi@lavabit.com>> wrote:
Brian,
Are you running Stunnel as a service or an app under Windows 7?
I'm unable to run it as a service without running into a host of user interface issues. However, it runs terrifically as an app for me.
I did a search to see if I could find any information on why the service has issues. I didn't find all that much, but I did stumble upon the following comment about services in general, which I found interesting:
"They run in an entirely different console starting with Vista. As a result of running in a different console, services cannot interact with the desktop. So essentially there is no direct UI support. You typically have to code a sibling UI application that does run as a normal program and uses some mechanism (named pipes for example) to communicate with the service."
Regards,
Thomas
On 6/11/2012 8:54 AM, Brian Wilkins wrote:
I should note that I have been running stunnel 4.45 on Windows 7 since Oct-2011 with no problems whatsoever. It has been running non-stop on Windows 7 to this date with no problems. I have not upgraded to the latest because I have not been able to have time to test the FIPS changes with my configuration yet.
Brian
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I absolutely agree. In fact, I disable the edit configuration option, as I don't want end users to mess with that. Regards -----Original Message----- From: Brian Wilkins <bwilkins@gmail.com> Sender: stunnel-users-bounces@stunnel.org Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 08:08:56 To: <stunnel-users@stunnel.org> Subject: Re: [stunnel-users] Getting Stunnel to Work Under Windows 7 64-bit _______________________________________________ stunnel-users mailing list stunnel-users@stunnel.org http://stunnel.mirt.net/mailman/listinfo/stunnel-users
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