I do like the idea of starting it on user logoff, and stopping it on user logon.
Thanks for that previous thread using this approach. The NewGINA approach seems a bit convulted (and perhaps NT-specific?). Has anyone tried using the Group Policy Editor in Windows XP to do this?
1. Run the Group Policy Editor (Start -> Run -> gpedit.msc)
2. Go to User Configuration -> Windows Settings -> Scripts (Logon/Logoff)
3. Make batch files
alchemi.start.bat with the single line
net start "Alchemi Executor Service"
alchemi.stop.bat with the single line
net stop "Alchemi Executor Service"
4. Pointing the Logon/Logoff scripts to these batch files.
I'm running the equivalent of the logout portion of that now. The NewGINA was primarily because I was only running it on a subset of machines, I don't have rights to change the group policies (as always our Network Admins don't like giving more access than you need to do your job), and I was told that in our environment (Novell client on the workstations used to apply the group policies with a few underlying weird unresolved issues) it didn't work 100% of the time.
Also, with reference to the previous instructions I wrote in
https://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=13639046 , I've found that something has been changed since I wrote them for the 1.0 beta and, as at version 1.0.4, the Executor service does start properly when the machine is first booted up so you can skip the step "Change Alchemi Executor Service Startup Type to Manual".
Essentially that means that the only additional thing you will need to do after configuring the group policies is use subinacl to give users the rights to start and stop the service (user logon/logoff scripts run with the rights of the logged in users - funny that).
Give it a go. It should work at least as well as my Rube Goldberg attempt.
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Reece Arnott
Learning Environments Specialist
School of Business
University of Otago
Dunedin
New Zealand
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