[stunnel-users] Getting Stunnel to Work Under Windows 7 64-bit

Wed Jun 13 21:08:03 CEST 2012

I run it as a service with no problem.

On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 2:41 PM, Thomas Eifert <kxkvi at 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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