Howto: Hamachi - User Install

[handband2]

I created this for the Hamachi Forums (http://forums.hamachi.cc/viewtopic.php?t=15075). Also I would like to thank KingOfNowhere (http://ubuntuforums.org/member.php?u=57747) for his earlier post on installing hamachi. (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=135036)



I'm not sure if this will help but I like to install hamachi to specific users. This is how I always get it working:

$ sudo modprobe tun
$ sudo gedit /etc/modules
add tun.
save and close.

Now run the following:
$ ls /dev/net/tun
You should get "/dev/net/tun"
If you don't then do the following:
$ sudo mkdir /dev/net
$ sudo mknod /dev/net/tun c 10 200
Download the newest hamachi version from http://files.hamachi.cc/linux/ or
$ wget wget http://files.hamachi.cc/linux/hamachi-0.9.9.9-20-lnx.tar.gz
Extract hamachi
$ tar -zxvf hamachi-0.9.9.9-20-lnx.tar.gz
Move into hamachi directory
$ cd hamachi-0.9.9.9-20-lnx/
Install hamachi
$ sudo make install
Start tuncfg
$ sudo tuncfg
Create hamachi group
$ sudo groupadd hamachi
Add myself to the hamachi group
$ sudo gpasswd -a handband2 hamachi
Add root to the hamachi group
$ sudo gpasswd -a root hamachi
Change file permissions for tuncfg.sock
$ sudo chmod 760 /var/run/tuncfg.sock
Change the group for tuncfg.sock
$ sudo chgrp hamachi /var/run/tuncfg.sock
Create RSA keypair
$ hamachi-init
Start hamachi
$ sudo hamachi start
Create hamachi account name
$ sudo hamachi set-nick handband2
Login to hamachi network
$ sudo hamachi login
Join a network
$ sudo hamachi join HANDBAND2
or Create a network
$ sudo hamachi create HANDBAND2

Now I add ghamachi:
Download it from here: http://www.penguinbyte.com/software/ghamachi/
or
$ wget -L http://purebasic.myftp.org/?filename=files/3/projects/hamachi/v.0.8.1/gHamachi_0.8.1.tar.gz
Rename the downloaded file
$ mv index.html\?filename\=files%2F3%2Fprojects%2Fhamac hi%2Fv.0.8.1%2FgHamachi_0.8.1.tar.gz gHamachi_0.8.1.tar.gz
Extract the files
$ tar -zxvf gHamachi_0.8.1.tar.gz
Move ghamachi to the /usr/bin/
$ sudo mv ghamachi /usr/bin/
Make ghamachi executable
$ sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/ghamachi
Download ghamchi icon
$ wget http://wonsheimlan.wo.funpic.de/hamachi.png
Move icon to /usr/share/pixmaps/ folder
$ sudo mv hamachi.png /usr/share/pixmaps/
Add hamachi as an application
$ sudo gedit /usr/share/applications/hamachi.desktop
Add the following
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Hamachi
Exec=ghamachi %u
Icon=/usr/share/pixmaps/hamachi.png
Type=Application
Categories=Application;Network;
MimeType=text/rss;text/xml;text/php;application/rss+xml
Comment=Instant VPN software

After this I restart. Now when you click on hamachi, ghamachi should ask for password (which I like for security). Don't forget to right click on your network to : "go-online"

A great program to use with hamachi: http://gnome-rdp.linuxforge.hu/
$ sudo apt-get install gnome-rdp

I hope this can help.

[llnk]

Thanks for the tutorial. I am running into a problem though. After rebooting i tried launching Hamachi from applications/internet. It prompts for the sudo password then loads the icon in the system tray. When i hit the power button on the UI it attempts to logon to Hamachi but it always fails. Does anyone know what the problem is?

Thanks

[Blind Tiger]

I followed this guide (from the Hamachi forums) also. Now when I try to launch Hamachi from the Gnome menu, I get the message "Hamachi could not be started." From the command line, I have already created a nickname, joined a network that I created a while back while using XP, and I can start and login to hamachi using the command line. Also, when I login to my.hamachi.cc, my linux box nick is listed as a member, but not online. When I try to go-online from the command line, I get the response that I am not a member of the network??? Any pointers? Is it an iptables issue?

[accog]

I am having the same problem. When i try to login into hamachi via the power button I cant. Any got any ideas?

[sean...]

I realize this topic is a bit old, but anyway...

Hamachi works fine for me if I just start it via the terminal with
sudo ghamachi
Other than that, it works great! Also, you don't need to restart your whole computer, just restart your X session with Ctrl-Alt-Backspace to finish setting up ghamachi.

[handband2]

sean...,

Thanks for the feedback.

If you need to ever install hamachi again I've written a script to do the installation. It is at the hamachi forums: https://forums.hamachi.cc/viewtopic.php?t=16590

[jspraggett]

Hi. I want to setup a remote pc in the US as a proxy using Hamachi so that my IP will appear to be a US IP. Do you know how to do this?

Jim

[TomasFitz]

I get to a problem at the line:

sudo chmod 760 /var/run/tuncfg.sock

I get the message: chmod: cannot access `/var/run/tuncfg.sock': No such file or directory

Everything goes fine up to here. Anyway around this?

[geazzy]

great threads :)