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...
Running as a service over a network?
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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.
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.