Windows Service networking restrictions?

[jkersch]

hi there, today i realized a really strange behaviour of windows services. i made a windows service that regularly checks some network services. i wrote a class to perform these checks. it works perfectly when i wrap it into a userspace program (command line). but the same piece of code always refuses to connect when wrapped into a windows service. is there something i have to obey when doing network programming with windows services? thanks, j.

[GloryKidd]

First what user account is your service running under? Local System accounts will not have access to network resources. The easy solution is to go to the services and set the service to run under your account. Then it would have the same rights you have. D Nuckolls "If you think its expensive to hire a Professional... Wait till you hire an Amateur!"

[jkersch]

i tried my account (is in domain admin group),tried local system account (ok,now i know that this definitely doesn´t work ;) and Domain Administrator Account, it´s all the same. now i just run the networking stuff wrapped in a commandline tool with task scheduler, but a windows service would my favourite choice... thanks though j.