To comment on the following update, log in, then open the issue: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=100613 Issue #|100613 Summary|Add support for registering OpenOffice as a Windows se |rvice Component|Installation Version|OOO310m7 Platform|Unknown URL| OS/Version|Windows, all Status|UNCONFIRMED Status whiteboard| Keywords| Resolution| Issue type|ENHANCEMENT Priority|P3 Subcomponent|code Assigned to|of Reported by|oharboe
------- Additional comments from [email protected] Fri Mar 27 14:30:56 +0000 2009 ------- When deploying OpenOffice in headless server mode it is necessary to launch OpenOffice as a service. I'd like to see an installation option to register OpenOffice as a service. Below is a manual recipie to to this and needless to say it's quite involved. <h2>Running OpenOffice as a service under Windows</h2> The net is rife with recipies on how to do this and there may be some simpler way of doing this, but as of writing this is the recommended approach: <ol> <li>Download and install <strong>OpenOffice.org</strong> on your computer.</li> <li>Create a user for service, e.g. <tt>openoffice</tt>.</li> <li>Run <strong>OpenOffice.org</strong> as <tt>openoffice</tt>. Right on shortcut to <em>OpenOffice.org > Run as…</em></li> <li>Go through the first run wizard. Close <strong>OpenOffice.org</strong>.</li> <li>Open <em>Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Local Security Policy</em>.</li> <li>Open <em>Security Settings > Local Policies > User Right Assigment > Log on as a service</em>. Add <tt>openoffice</tt>.</li> <li>Download and install <strong>Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit Tools</strong>. rktools.exe works on Windows XP Professional as well.</li> <li>Read <a href="http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q137890/";>How To Create a User-Defined Service</a>.</li> <li>Create a service named <tt>OpenOfficeService</tt> following the instructions above. As the <tt>Application</tt> registry value use <tt>C:\Program Files\OpenOffice.org 3.0\program\soffice.exe</tt>.</li> <li>Add another value to the <tt>Parameters</tt> key named <tt>AppParameters</tt> and set it to: <ul> <li><tt>-headless -accept=socket,port=2002;urp;</tt><br /> if you what to allow <strong>OpenOffice.org</strong> accept connections only from localhost,</li> <li><tt>-headless -accept=socket,host=0.0.0.0,port=2002;urp;</tt><br /> if you what to allow <strong>OpenOffice.org</strong> accept connections from any computer.</li> </ul> </li> <li>Open <em>Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Services</em>.</li> <li>Find <tt>OpenOfficeService</tt> and open its properties.</li> <li>On <em>Log On</em> tab set <em>Log on as: This account</em> and specify <tt>openoffice</tt>.</li> <li>Start service.</li> </ol> <div>Some notes:</div> <div> <ul> <li>To check is our service running from a command prompt do:<br /> <code>> netstat -anp tcp</code><br /> This shoud show a listening on port 2002.</li> <li>If you use firewall, you may need to allow connections to port 2002.</li> <li>You can remove <tt>openoffice</tt> from group <tt>Users</tt> to deny local log in for this user.</li> </ul> </div> <h2>OpenOffice as a service troubleshooting</h2> If conversion fails, then it might be because OpenOffice is trying to open some sort of dialog box. Create an icon on the desktop with the argumetns above. <p> Create an shortcut on the desktop with the following arguments and right click and "Run as" using the openoffice user. This will enable you to see the dialog boxes that OpenOffice is trying to show. <p> <code> "C:\Program Files\OOo-dev 3\program\soffice.exe" -accept=socket,host=localhost,port=2002;urp; </code> <h2>OpenOffice advanced configuration</h2> You can configure the openoffice service to restart upon failure. Right click on services and enter the "Recovery" tab. Here you can set the service to restart upon failure. However, this will fail as long as the srvany.exe application is running. As of writing a there is no known method to make srvany.exe take advantage robustly of the "Recovery" tab options. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
