DPAD As a Service

[Alyx]

Ok any help would be much appreciated.

I'm using the download from here:

http://www.soni.dk/Distributed/dpadservice.asp

I pasted the new files from the Stephen Brooks DPAD site to get it up to the newest version. Updated the User.txt file. I left the App directory as the default and installed it. The script ran without any errors. When I start the service it runs fine and muon1.exe shows up in task manager but it never starts doing work, just hangs there with 0% processor usage.

I also tried renaming all the settings to install to C:\Program Files\muon2\ so I could set it to run two tasks as a service for the dual core machine. Anywhere it was muon1 I changed to muon2, service name, file name, locations, everything. It also installed without errors and hangs at the same place.

Any ideas? If you want a few screenshots or the text from the .bat files I can post them up here.

 

[amdxborg]

Hey Alyx, pm me you're email addy. I'll send you the service installer I made from soni's files. I've installed it on a couple of hundred pcs.. so I know it works!

Oh just another thing, before you start the service, run the muon1_cmdline.bat, if something other than the service install is wrong you'll see it there.

 

[Assimilator1]

Got it going?

 

[amdxborg]

Yeah he did!

 

[Assimilator1]

 

[Alyx]

Ok. Still not going well .
amdxborg sent me his installer he uses and I installed it on 3 machines. It worked without a hitch, all 3 running fine. I came back in on Monday and 2 of them aren't working (and 3rd machine is in use so I can't check it). I imagine my install file is correct since I didn't make any changes to what amdxborg sent. Could it possibly be a problem with the account I installed it on? The machines are on a domain and I installed it as local admin, maybe it needs to be installed on a domain admin account?

I'm lost on this one. I'm going to go play with it a little more before lunch (today's a slow day at work) and I'll post back if I find anything.

 

[Alyx]

Originally posted by: amdxborg
Oh just another thing, before you start the service, run the muon1_cmdline.bat, if something other than the service install is wrong you'll see it there.

I tried this and the program started up no problems. Service still won't work though. *shakes fist to the gods*

I also tried changing the install folder so everyone had full access to it. That didn't change anything either.

 

[amdxborg]

Hey there, sorry just checked my mail. How long does the service run before it stops en can you figure out what causes it to stop, ie a restart or something like that? Under the service properties on the Recovery tab you could also try and select Restart the service after subsequent failures for the time being.

 

[Alyx]

Ok, more info. I ended the task muon1.exe and then restarted the service, this will get it running again. Just restarting the service starts it in the same broken state.

I restarted the machine and logged back in and the process was still working - reboot check!

I logged into the account the folks who use the machine use, which is on a different domain than the machine is joined to and the service stopped working. I'll go check and see if different accounts on the main domain work.