Re: [Openvpn-users] Distributing OpenVPN to stupid users

[Jon Bendtsen <jon.bendtsen@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Den tirsdag 27.dec kl. 10:05 skrev Moritz Bunkus:

> Hey,
>
> On Thursday 22 December 2005 18:11, Cameron Gocke wrote:
>
> > Hey guys, I'm really just looking for any input on good ways to roll
> > the client out to my Windows based users.  Right now I am building an
> > individual self extracting installer for each client that includes
> > their unique certificates.
>
> The OpenVPN GUI installer is NSIS based. I'm using NSIS for one of my
> own OpneSource projects, too, and I'm even building the Windows
> installer on Linux by running makensis.exe under Wine. It doesn't even
> require X in my setup. So there's definitely a possibility to create a
> full stand-alone installer automatically without any user  
> intervention,
> and if you add some scripting around it then you can even do this from
> e.g. a web frontend or whatever certificate management solution you're
> using at the moment.
>
> If you want more details on this solution just ask. I'll be happy to
> give you pointers on my Wine setup. If you're running on Windows  
> then it
> might be even easier -- no need for Wine ;) Just run makensis.exe with
> the name of the .nsi file and you're done. If you need some more  
> potent
> scripting solution on Windows than cmd.exe then I suggest you either
> get a scripting language like Perl or Ruby or you get the usual Unix
> tools for Windows from the cygwin project.

I cant get makensis and -Duser=Foo_Bar to work. Can i see your .nsi file
and how you call makensis with it?



JonB

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