Hamachi is a freeware application that initiates a virtual private network (VPN) between peers. This is extremely useful for initiating applications such as games over the Local Area Network (LAN).

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This Tutorial is for setting up Hamachi with a gui based interface (optional) in Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron.

  1. Download Hamachi
  2. Extract it somewhere
  3. Open up a terminal and CD into the directory
  4. Run ‘make install’ or ‘sudo make install’ to install hamachi
  5. Run hamachi-init to generate crypto identity
  6. Download and Run hamachi-gui – x86 or AMD64

You’re done! Simple! Hamachi-gui should be under your list of applications now or simply run hamachi-gui inside terminal.

If you feel more comfortable at the terminal, here are some commands you can use to setup hamachi manually.

  • Run ‘hamachi start’ to launch Hamachi daemon.
  • Run ‘hamachi login’ to put the daemon online and to create an account.
  • Run ‘hamachi join <network>’ to join the network.
  • Run ‘hamachi go-online <network>’ to go online in the network.
  • Run ‘hamachi get-nicks’ to download network memberlist
  • Run ‘hamachi list’ to list network members and their status.