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Re: [tor-relays] Windows Tor Server Guide
Hi,
Appreciate your response, but it's sadly the Windows "Expert Installer" is actually called "Expert Bundle" and is just 2 files of directories. No installer, no readme, nothing. It's also seems like an older version, tor-win32-0.2.6.7.zip. So, I ended up copying the instructions below from the Tor Browser package, and tried to get it working. No dice. I have a dedicated 50Mb/50Mb circuit I'm trying to setup as an exit node. Literally, all that bandwidth is just for Tor. Hence my frustration with this. Any assistance, is appreciated.
From administrator cmd, I ran "c:\torsrv\tor.exe -f c:\torsrv\torrc" and it launches and quits. And nothing is in debug log. Any help is appreciated.
Here is the torrc except the exitpolicy I'm running. All the files are under c:\torsrv. Any ideas?
# This file was generated by Tor; if you edit it, comments will not be preserved
# Where to send logging messages. Format is minSeverity[-maxSeverity]
# (stderr|stdout|syslog|file FILENAME).
#Log notice stdout file c:\TorSrv\notices.log
Log debug file C:\TorSrv\debug.log
DataDirectory C:\TorSrv\
GeoIPFile C:\TorSrv\geoip
GeoIPv6File C:\TorSrv\geoip6
# If non-zero, try to write to disk less frequently than we would otherwise.
AvoidDiskWrites 1
# Bind to this address to listen to connections from SOCKS-speaking
# applications.
ORPort 443
DirPort 9030
SocksPort 9150
ControlPort 9151
CookieAuthentication 1
-Ben
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From: tor-relays [mailto:tor-relays-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Julien ROBIN
Sent: Sunday, May 17, 2015 6:41 AM
To: tor-relays@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [tor-relays] Windows Tor Server Guide
Hi !
From my memories, I think the "Expert" Tor installer for Windows is installing, registering and launching Tor as service in a completely automatic way. It must be run as administrator, if not the Tor files cannot be written to "Program Files" and the service cannot be registered into Windows. This installer could be found into "View all downloads" on the "Download Tor" page.
You will have to find where is the Tor's DataDir ! But it should not be too complicated.
Feel free to try :) I remember it as easy.
At the begining, it will not be a Tor Relay, just a Tor proxy client listening on 127.0.0.1:9050 (it will change once you will edit your torrc and restart the Tor service)
But the idea of isolating the Tor service with a dedicated user, that cannot touch anything on the system, is a pretty good idea also. I'm not sure the Expert installer does that, but it should not be too much complicated (following the "how to" should be enough for that part).
From the task manager, you can launch the "resource manager" : into the "network" tab, you have a view of all listening socket into your system. (You can see if Tor is inside or not, for example by looking if something listens on 9050, or another port you defined on torrc file). You can also see the Tor's log file ! It's usefull as it warns you in case of problems, and it tells you if it's working.
Good luck !
PS : Expert Installer should probably not be used for browing the Internet through Tor with a "standard browser". TBB is a better solution for Browsing Internet trough Tor (thanks to a secured browser). That's why Expert Installer is a little bit "hidden", for avoiding people browing Internet with it. But for a server use, Expert Installer does the job !
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De: "Ben Serebin" <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Ã: "tor-relays@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <tor-relays@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
EnvoyÃ: Dimanche 17 Mai 2015 07:59:14
Objet: Re: [tor-relays] Windows Tor Server Guide
Hi thereâ
1 st post (I figured after years of donating to EFF, I should run a tor relay). Iâve searched and read many posts on tor-relays and the best Windows Tor Server Guide I found was this below one by Rafael Rodriguez. A few questions, and apologies if they seem silly, but there is scant info out there for us Windows admins.
- is a web server needed?
- the below email post had the slashes stripped from the path entries which makes it tricky to follow (talk about an annoying mail-list process). Overall, throw all the files in a single dir?
- before I load it as a service, once all files and config the âtorrcâ can I just launch the tor.exe and then test itâs working?
- is this the only way to run a relay on Windows? Hoping thereâs a special approach to simplify the process (now I know why there arenât more of them).
Thanks,
-Ben
Rafael Rodriguez rafaelr at icctek.com
Wed Nov 5 00:47:46 UTC 2014
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Hi, here is it. Please, feel free to contribute to it.
RUNNING A TOR SERVER IN WINDOWS
- Download latest Tor Browser Bundle.
- Install to c:tor
- Create a temporary folder on your Desktop and name it "server".
- Copy all files from C:TorBrowserTorBrowserDataTor to the "server"
folder on the Desktop.
- Browse to C:TorBrowserTorBrowserTor; delete the folder
"PluggableTransports" and it content.
- Copy all files from C:TorBrowserTorBrowserTor to the "server" folder
on the Desktop.
- Browse to C:Tor and delete everything inside that folder. C:Tor should
be completely empty at this point.
- Move all files from the "server" folder on your Desktop to C:Tor
- Browse to C:Tor and create a new folder named "datadir".
- Create a new text file in C:Tor named "notices" (I myself use
notices.log but we want to keep it simple for users who may not know how
to change the file extension from .txt to .log)
- EDIT C:TORTORRC FILE: (this could be the torrc-defaults file and all
its comments). Note that the sample below is just for references. Each
user needs to define her/his own parameters based on their own needs and
that's impossible for me to cover in a single file for everyone. Hence,
each parameter should be included in the torrc-defaults with due
comments to be used as reference. Also, noted that I'm using IPv4 geoip
by default. Users using IPv6 should define geoip6 in their torrc file.
Then again, I cannot use a single sample file for all deployments. The
defaults file should be used as reference once again.
DATADIRECTORY .DATADIR
LOG NOTICE FILE .NOTICES.TXT
GEOIPFILE .GEOIP
AvoidDiskWrites 1
SocksPort 0
ORPort 9001
DirPort 9030
ExitPolicy reject *:*
Nickname
RelayBandwidthRate
RelayBandwidthBurst
Up until this point, all I've written is nothing more than using the
default Tor Bundle to create a "Server" package. All steps above could
be made easier for users if a "Tor Windows Server" package was available
for download on the Tor Project or somewhere else. I refuse the idea of
creating such package myself to distribute it since many packages could
start floating on the net and bad intentioned people could bundle them
with arbitrary code, viruses and so on. A Windows Installer package can
be built for distribution though.
Next, I will address the two main things we need to run tor as a Windows
service (server):
1- Install Tor as Windows Service.
2- Security (Isolating the Tor service).
INSTALL TOR AS WINDOWS SERVICE
I personally use nssm [2] (Non-Sucking Service Manager) myself to
register the service but feel free to use default Windows tools for
registering Tor service if you believe so. Anyways, irrespective the
tool used to register the Tor service, we just need the following:
Service: C:Tortor.exe
Name: TorServer
Parameters: -f C:Tortorrc
Start the TorServer service and everything should just work at this
point. The datadir directory will be populated with tor files once
started and the notices.txt file will also reflect so.
SECURITY (Quick explanation - We can go into details later)
- Create a Standard user account and name it Tor with a strong password.
- Policies:
1- Deny access to this computer from the network
2- Deny log on locally
3- Deny log on through Remote Desktop Services
- NTFS Permissions for Tor windows user account:
1- Read/Write permissions to datadir folder
2- Read/Write permissions to notices.txt or (notices.log) file
- Open Services, Start -> Run -> type "services.msc" without quotes,
press enter and your Services window will pop up. Scroll down and find
the TorServer service and double click it. Move to the LOG ON tab and
set the "Log on as: This account: .TOR. Enter the strong password for
the Tor user account in the password field and apply changes. Restart
the service and now Tor will be running in its own isolated/limited
account in Windows.
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