>I have not done this before, and was wondering if anybody has experience creating an NT service. My particular need is to write an NT service that will log a user into the NT server, make changes, retrieve files, and then log out of that server, retturning back to the client.
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> First, can this be done using a COM server, registered on the clients, or is the best way a service that runs on the NT server. The reason I want to try this, is so that we do not have to maintain an entire new set of user rights across servers. We have 5 servers running now.
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> Can I access this server from a Windows 95 client. I was reading a Visual BAsic Programmers Article(I know boo!!!), that talked about an OCX I belive that was called NETSERV.OCX, or something similar.
Any EXE can be made into an NT service. The NT Resource Kit has a utility that will do this for you.
Craig Berntson
MCSD, Microsoft .Net MVP, Grape City Community Influencer