Hello there,
I’m looking for a good program that enables me and my friends to simulate a Local Network to play some older games. I tried Hamachi and Radmin VPN, however both of those start with the system and if you disable them in autostart, they wont work by starting them manually. I just want a program that I start and it does it’s job when I need it without constantly running in the background every day. Do alternatives differ in that aspect in any way to the aforementioned programs?
Alternatively, Zerotier is very powerful and opensource.
But you can always also just turn off the Services manually. It is the same with Hamachi, you just need to know what Service you need to run or turn off.
Thanks for the reply, does Zerotier have the background service too? Problem is that disabling them renders the program useless, you have to have them activated at start if you want to use the VPN…
I know that problem with Hamachi, when removing from autostart. You just need to know what you have to start or stop. Here is an example code for a .bat script:
net stop Hamachi2Svc
net start Hamachi2Svc
start "DRIVELETTER:\Program Files (x86)\LogMeIn Hamachi\hamachi-2-ui.exe"
exit
Replace DRIVELETTER with your drive’s letter. If you save it as a .bat file and, if needed run as admin, it will start the needed services needed for Hamachi properly.
Honestly I am not sure if Zerotier has similar bugs like Hamachi and if you can turn on/off services. Did not properly test it yet. But what I am sure of, is, that opensource is usually safer to use than closed source.