how to run multiple instances of a service

[Michael Olsen]

Hello all, I have a problem figuring out how to start a service more than once at a time. it seems to be posible, but all my tries to date have failed. Could anyone help me with this problem? in advance, thanks Michael Olsen

[Michael P Butler]

Michael Olsen wrote: Could anyone help me with this problem? A Windows service by its very nature can only be run once. You'd have to have a different service name for each instance you want to run. Why do you want to have multiple instances of a service? Michael CP Blog [^]

[Michael Olsen]

Thanks for the reply. The service is a kind of router, and with multiple instances more customers could be serviced (on diferent ports) without mixing. like acidentialy sending data to another customer. I had hoped this could be done by starting the same service multiple times listening to different ports. Michael Olsen

[Michael P Butler]

Michael Olsen wrote: I had hoped this could be done by starting the same service multiple times listening to different ports. I'm no expert on this, but I think the "correct" way would be to have one service that has multiple threads. One thread per port. Michael CP Blog [^]