[Vpn-help] trouble with installing shrew on vista

[Matthew Grooms]

Brad Langhorst wrote:
> this is vista 32 bit sp1...
> somehow things have gotten into a state where shrew cannot copy the
> driver files to \system32\drivers 
> even when the installer is run as an administrator.
> 
> I wanted to try to debug it by running those commands as the
> administrator in the command prompt, but I could not find a log of the
> installer commands anywhere.
> 
> Is there source code available for the installer? so I could see what to
> test?
> 
> I suspect this is some kind of broken vista situation - it won't apply
> windows updates at the moment either.
> 

Hi Brad,

What kind of error messages are you getting? The installer uses the 
sanctioned DIFx[1] tools so it doesn't do any manual copy of driver 
files. I'm not sure what would prevent this from happening properly.

-Matthew

1] http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/driver/install/DIFxFAQ.mspx