SMP running as a service!

[Whitestar]

Shamelessly stolen from the stanford forum.

Don't know if it's 100% Kosher, but one of my teammates found a way to run the Windows SMP client as a service & claims to have been doing so for over a month now without a lick of trouble. I just tried it out on my own Athlon X2 4400 system & it seems to be working just fine for me as well. To test it, I created a new user account, logged off my account, logged into the new account in which the WinSMP Client continued to run, I then rebooted the PC from the new account. Upon restarting, the WinSMP client started up just like the non SMP clients in service mode.

Key points:
1> .net 2.0 & Windows SMP Client must be installed from the same account with full administrator privelages.
2> using the -configonly flag, say "yes" to services question & configure everything else as you normaly would.
3> Open the services control pannel, go to the new FAH WinSMP service & open the properties for it & click the log on tab. Select Log On As: This Account (instead of Local System Account), put the user name for the account under which .net 2.0 & WinSMP client were installed & enter the password.
4> Reboot & WinSMP client will automaticly start in service mode.

It works.
Will see how well it fares on the machines at work. And I can keep an eye on the clients using fahmon and fix any problems with vnc.

 

[lay-z-boy]

Thanks for the heads up will be great for my laptop and server

 

[MGP]

I've been successfully running the win SMP client on a server as a service for a number of weeks now

 

[Biffa]

I've always run it as a service, no problems here.

 

[VeNT]

can someone check that this works as my winSMP clients never worked properly even when not as a service!

 

[shadowscotland]

can someone check that this works as my winSMP clients never worked properly even when not as a service!

A large minority of people can't get winSMP to work, it is beta afterall.
But most have just a few minor teething issue and a luck few it's plain sailing.

 

[BillytheImpaler]

can someone check that this works as my winSMP clients never worked properly even when not as a service!

It just worked for me... twice.

 

[lay-z-boy]

Works for me, on all 4 machines i put it on.