Squeak as an NT service

Raab, Andreas Andreas.Raab at disney.com
Sat Jan 27 19:38:00 UTC 2001


Peter,

It may certainly be useful, but the fact of the matter is that I have no
idea of how to make it happen :-( Any Windows hackers out there who can
help?!

  - Andreas

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Crowther [mailto:Peter.Crowther at melandra.com]
> Sent: Friday, January 26, 2001 1:22 AM
> To: 'squeak at cs.uiuc.edu'
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> Subject: RE: Squeak as an NT service
> 
> 
> > From: Raab, Andreas [mailto:Andreas.Raab at disney.com]
> > As I said in my previous post you cannot interact 
> > (graphically) with Squeak
> > when it's running as a service. While this may be 
> > theoretically possible it
> > would also imply that everyone who is logged on could do 
> > whatever she wants
> > with Squeak and that is most certainly not what you want.
> 
> The same's true for anything set up that way, but it's still useful on
> standalone server in order to start the service as the 
> machine boots.  If
> you don't do this, you need to configure auto-login on an NT 
> box, which has
> a nasty side-effect of leaving an unencrypted password in a 
> public area of
> the registry that can be read remotely.
> 
> Just make sure you put the server in a safe place :-).
> 
> 		- Peter
> 





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