Hi all, The only user for which desktop interaction is possible is the system account. For all other users, especially a domain account (system is not a domain account, it's a local account) the tray icon is shown only if someone logs in using exactly that user --- which you usually try to avoid.
If any other software supports a tray-icon for services running under domain accounts they usually have a separate tool which interacts with the service somehow. That tool is e.g. started at user logon and runs as the current user (and therefore can show a tray icon). For servers alive it means there is a separate front-end required which communicates with its service to support similar features. It should be not too difficult to do that. The only thing to provide is kind of start-up parameter for the serversalive.exe which defines the registry key to read the settings from. You could then have different settings (disabled auto starting checks, disabled logs and so on) for the service and the front-end. You could even run more than one servers alive service on one host. The only thing this solution would not do is showing the status of the servers alive service in the tray-icon unless that feature is also implented by woodstone ;) Best Regards, Mike -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Dirk Bulinckx Gesendet: 02 February 2006 18:37 An: [email protected] Betreff: RE: [SA-list] Systray Icon This is NOT a limit of Servers Alive. The OS can only show a tray icon if the app/service that has to display the icon has desktop interaction. Run the service as a user with desktop interaction and it works. Dirk. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Greg D. Moore Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2006 7:04 PM To: [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: RE: [SA-list] Systray Icon At 12:45 PM 2/2/2006, Dirk Bulinckx wrote: >As described in the doc only on the real desktop you can see the icon IF the >user running the service has desktop interaction. In a TS env. That means >that you need to use the TS client of Win2003 and the TS server of Win2003 >and use the TS client with the /CONSOLE option. And still the user running >the service needs desktop interaction (I think this is only possible with >the SYSTEM user) OOC? Why does Servers Alive have this limitation? I know other services don't. >Dirk. > > >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf >Of Greg D. Moore >Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2006 6:33 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: [SA-list] Systray Icon > > > >We're in the process of moving Servers Alive to a Windows 2003 box. > >One of the reasons is so that we can terminal serv in as console. > >However, it appears that since I set the service to startup as a >service and run under a domain account (so it can more easily check >services on other machines) no icon shows up on the systray. > >Why and how can I fix this? > > > >Greg D. Moore Director of IT [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Powerone Media 1-800-6POWER6 http://www.poweronemedia.com >Security Tip: When possible, use a passphrase instead of a password. > > > >To unsubscribe from a list, send a mail message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >With the following in the body of the message: > unsubscribe SAlive > > >To unsubscribe from a list, send a mail message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >With the following in the body of the message: > unsubscribe SAlive Greg D. Moore Director of IT [EMAIL PROTECTED] Powerone Media 1-800-6POWER6 http://www.poweronemedia.com Security Tip: When possible, use a passphrase instead of a password. To unsubscribe from a list, send a mail message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] With the following in the body of the message: unsubscribe SAlive To unsubscribe from a list, send a mail message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] With the following in the body of the message: unsubscribe SAlive To unsubscribe from a list, send a mail message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] With the following in the body of the message: unsubscribe SAlive
