29 Apr 2021, 20:19
(28 Apr 2021, 12:11 )Penguin Wrote:(28 Apr 2021, 11:58 )krinlyc Wrote:No.(28 Apr 2021, 11:43 )Penguin Wrote: In @GCRhoads tutorial, on my Windows 7 system, I get to the step where Tor is supposed to configure.You connect a windows 7 direct to the internet?
The Retroshare Window reads "Setting up Tor ..."
The whole thing stalls out right there.
Tor bootstrap status never gets past 0%.
I have to manually kill the tor process to back out.
This is also the point at which the online docs fail me: I never get to the point where I'm asked to sign my certificate.
At the moment, this looks like a hopeless mess. Unless and unless I can obtain some clear guidance about how this actually does work, I'm going to sideline it. Life is too short to spend most of it banging one's head against cement walls.
I'm running Windows firewall on my client and a pfSense hardware firewall between my entire trusted network and my cable modem.
Windows firewall has been configured to pass outbound traffic from retroshare.exe and tor.exe in the Retroshare\ folder on my desktop.
Last time I checked, my pfSense logs didn't indicate it had blocked anything from my Windows client's internal IP. All blocked packets from the last 2 minutes' traffic originate from external IPS.
I'm not sure which guide you mean. I followed some of the guide at the very beginning of this topic, but mainly I followed the Retroshare manual. The main difference for me is I'm running plain Tor on Linux and not the Tor Browser Bundle.
I had Tor stuck at 0%. It turned out that I had forgotten to unblock that computer on my router from a previous experiment.
After I granted it access it connected OK. I usually test Tor via Firefox or Chromium.
Recently I have experienced Tor being stuck at 95%. I have no idea why that is happening as another PC with a slightly older version of Tor connects every time.
I've been told that Tor can punch through more than one layer of NAT, so you shouldn't need to forward ports unless you are running a Tor relay. Naturally, firewalls will stop Tor. Normally I would suggest checking if a web browser could access the internet OK, but in light of the OS used I really can't recommend that.
I'm sorry I can't offer any help. Perhaps there's a forum out there which covers Tor? Maybe you'll find the answer on https://tor.stackexchange.com/