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Running as a service over a network?
Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2003 12:51 pm
by Choy
I have a computer that I would like to run with the harddrive off as much as possible. So I had the idea of running the f@h service from a harddrive on the network. This works well as long as I do it manually. But WinXP doesn't accept a service to be started from a non-mapped folder (eg \\computer\share\FAH3Console.exe ...) Does anyone have any exp in getting something like this to work?
And I'll never reach the top50... Always someone that races ahead of me...
Don't know if I should laugh for the team or cry for myself...
Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2003 8:47 pm
by ColdFlame
If you are sure that the culprit is that the service controller does not like UNC paths then you have 2 options:
1) you can use NET USE command to mount a network path as a disk
2) you can create a RAM drive, copy the executable there and start it as a service from there
I'm not sure whether option 1 will work.
You need to do something like this:
NET USE * \\your_machine\your_path
It will mount that path as drive Z: or whatever is available.
Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2003 1:29 am
by Choy
It works fine if I map the drive using NET or anything else, but then I can't fold without anyone logged in. Or can I use net before I get to the login screen? Needless to say I have to have network access.
The same issue with a ram drive. How do I get it working before I log in?
Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2003 5:12 am
by Choy
I found this article from MS about running scripts before logging in. But since I don't have Resource Kit it doesn't do me any good. Is there any other way to run commands before logging in?
Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2003 11:23 am
by Cosine
FireDaemon
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