On Sep 24 2008, Florent Daigni?re wrote: >> As you say, we can't run as the installing user... > >Well, we can! provided we don't use the windows services at all but a >shortcut in the startup menu or something like that... but we don't want >to because that's user-specific. We want to maximize the uptime of >nodes, not to restrict it to the timespan a specific user is logged on >the system.
This is a mistake in my opinion. If one user installs Freenet, it shouldn't run when other users are logged in. That creates security holes (the logged-in user can visit Fproxy and see the logged-out user's uploads and downloads) and inconveniences the logged-in user by using CPU, memory and bandwidth for an app they don't care about. Heavyweight services are the bane of a Windows user's existence - just look at Vista. Do what other P2P apps do: run from the start menu. Cheers, Michael
