[tor-relays] Windows Tor Server Guide

Mon May 18 05:46:25 UTC 2015

Hi All,

Here is the fix (thanks to Arma on IRC). Here are my instructions for Windows admins. Let me know where the wiki is, and I'll post this. Some of the windows instructions have the path wrong, this is the correct way.

- download the Expert Bundle package (as of 5/18/15 it's called tor-win32-0.0.6.7.zip ( https://www.torproject.org/download/download.html.en )
- unzip it and place contents in a TorSrv folder (e.g. C:\TorSrv\). So, the 2 folders & subfolders would be C:\TorSrv\Data & C:\TorSrv\Tor.
- add a Tor config file (torrc) to C:\TorSrv\Tor (as shown below with strict exit policy). Few things to update: nickname, contact info, and ports (e.g. ORPort, DirPort).
- load a service... From Administration Command Prompt run the following command " C:\TorSrv\Tor>c:\torsrv\tor\tor.exe --service install -options -f c:\torsrv\tor\" On reboot the service is set to Automatic.
torrc"
- any feedback, is appreciated.

-Ben

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# 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 notice file C:\TorSrv\debug.log
DataDirectory C:\TorSrv\Data\Tor
GeoIPFile C:\TorSrv\Data\Tor\geoip
GeoIPv6File C:\TorSrv\Data\Tor\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
## fteproxy configuration
#ClientTransportPlugin fte exec TorBrowser\Tor\PluggableTransports\fteproxy --managed

## obfs4proxy configuration
#ClientTransportPlugin obfs2,obfs3,obfs4,scramblesuit exec TorBrowser\Tor\PluggableTransports\obfs4proxy

## flash proxy configuration
#
# Change the second number here (9000) to the number of a port that can
# receive connections from the Internet (the port for which you
# configured port forwarding).
#ClientTransportPlugin flashproxy exec TorBrowser\Tor\PluggableTransports\flashproxy-client --register :0 :9000

## meek configuration
#ClientTransportPlugin meek exec TorBrowser\Tor\PluggableTransports\terminateprocess-buffer TorBrowser\Tor\PluggableTransports\meek-client-torbrowser -- TorBrowser\Tor\PluggableTransports\meek-client

ExitPolicy accept *:20-23     # FTP, SSH, telnet
ExitPolicy accept *:43        # WHOIS
ExitPolicy accept *:53        # DNS
ExitPolicy accept *:79-81     # finger, HTTP
ExitPolicy accept *:88        # kerberos
ExitPolicy accept *:110       # POP3
ExitPolicy accept *:143       # IMAP
ExitPolicy accept *:194       # IRC
ExitPolicy accept *:220       # IMAP3
ExitPolicy accept *:389       # LDAP
ExitPolicy accept *:443       # HTTPS
ExitPolicy accept *:464       # kpasswd
ExitPolicy accept *:531       # IRC/AIM
ExitPolicy accept *:543-544   # Kerberos
ExitPolicy accept *:554       # RTSP
ExitPolicy accept *:563       # NNTP over SSL
ExitPolicy accept *:636       # LDAP over SSL
ExitPolicy accept *:706       # SILC
ExitPolicy accept *:749       # kerberos
ExitPolicy accept *:873       # rsync
ExitPolicy accept *:902-904   # VMware
ExitPolicy accept *:981       # Remote HTTPS management for firewall
ExitPolicy accept *:989-995   # FTP over SSL, Netnews Administration System, telnets, IMAP over SSL, ircs, POP3 over SSL
ExitPolicy accept *:1194      # OpenVPN
ExitPolicy accept *:1220      # QT Server Admin
ExitPolicy accept *:1293      # PKT-KRB-IPSec
ExitPolicy accept *:1500      # VLSI License Manager
ExitPolicy accept *:1533      # Sametime
ExitPolicy accept *:1677      # GroupWise
ExitPolicy accept *:1723      # PPTP
ExitPolicy accept *:1755      # RTSP
ExitPolicy accept *:1863      # MSNP
ExitPolicy accept *:2082      # Infowave Mobility Server
ExitPolicy accept *:2083      # Secure Radius Service (radsec)
ExitPolicy accept *:2086-2087 # GNUnet, ELI
ExitPolicy accept *:2095-2096 # NBX
ExitPolicy accept *:2102-2104 # Zephyr
ExitPolicy accept *:3128      # SQUID
ExitPolicy accept *:3389      # MS WBT
ExitPolicy accept *:3690      # SVN
ExitPolicy accept *:4321      # RWHOIS
ExitPolicy accept *:4643      # Virtuozzo
ExitPolicy accept *:5050      # MMCC
ExitPolicy accept *:5190      # ICQ
ExitPolicy accept *:5222-5223 # XMPP, XMPP over SSL
ExitPolicy accept *:5228      # Android Market
ExitPolicy accept *:5900      # VNC
ExitPolicy accept *:6660-6669 # IRC
ExitPolicy accept *:6679      # IRC SSL
ExitPolicy accept *:6697      # IRC SSL
ExitPolicy accept *:8000      # iRDMI
ExitPolicy accept *:8008      # HTTP alternate
ExitPolicy accept *:8074      # Gadu-Gadu
ExitPolicy accept *:8080      # HTTP Proxies
ExitPolicy accept *:8082      # HTTPS Electrum Bitcoin port
ExitPolicy accept *:8087-8088 # Simplify Media SPP Protocol, Radan HTTP
ExitPolicy accept *:8332-8333 # Bitcoin
ExitPolicy accept *:8443      # PCsync HTTPS
ExitPolicy accept *:8888      # HTTP Proxies, NewsEDGE
ExitPolicy accept *:9418      # git
ExitPolicy accept *:9999      # distinct
ExitPolicy accept *:10000     # Network Data Management Protocol
ExitPolicy accept *:11371     # OpenPGP hkp (http keyserver protocol)
ExitPolicy accept *:19294     # Google Voice TCP
ExitPolicy accept *:19638     # Ensim control panel
ExitPolicy accept *:50002     # Electrum Bitcoin SSL
ExitPolicy accept *:64738     # Mumble
ExitPolicy reject *:12350     # Skype reminder: blocks login from exit nodes since 2013
ExitPolicy reject *:23456     # Skype
ExitPolicy reject *:33033     # Skype
ExitPolicy reject *:*
Nickname HelpMakeAmericaSafe
ContactInfo me at somedomain.com
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-----Original Message-----
From: tor-relays [mailto:tor-relays-bounces at lists.torproject.org] On Behalf Of Ben Serebin
Sent: Sunday, May 17, 2015 11:58 PM
To: 'tor-relays at lists.torproject.org'
Subject: 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

-----Original Message-----
From: tor-relays [mailto:tor-relays-bounces at lists.torproject.org] On Behalf Of Julien ROBIN
Sent: Sunday, May 17, 2015 6:41 AM
To: tor-relays at lists.torproject.org
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 !

----- Mail original -----
De: "Ben Serebin" <ben at reefsolutions.com>
À: "tor-relays at lists.torproject.org" <tor-relays at lists.torproject.org>
Envoyé: Dimanche 17 Mai 2015 07:59:14
Objet: Re: [tor-relays] Windows Tor Server Guide

Hi there…

1 st post (I figured after years of donating to EFF, I should run a tor relay). I’ve 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 “torrc” can I just launch the tor.exe and then test it’s working?

- is this the only way to run a relay on Windows? Hoping there’s a special approach to simplify the process (now I know why there aren’t 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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