Why are we interested in iTunes? There seem to be plenty of alternatives available. <br><br>Or are we talking about ipod compatibility specifically, as there are no viable alternatives to iTunes for syncing. <br><br>Edward<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Feb 18, 2008 3:11 PM, James Hawkins <<a href="mailto:truiken@gmail.com">truiken@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">On Feb 17, 2008 11:07 PM, Maarten Lankhorst <<a href="mailto:m.b.lankhorst@gmail.com">m.b.lankhorst@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> 2008/2/17, James Hawkins <<a href="mailto:truiken@gmail.com">truiken@gmail.com</a>>:<br>
><br>> > On Feb 17, 2008 9:42 PM, Maarten Lankhorst <<a href="mailto:m.b.lankhorst@gmail.com">m.b.lankhorst@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> > > Hi Christopher,<br>> > ><br>> > > Christopher Harvey wrote:<br>
> > > > What needs to get done for iTunes to work?<br>> > ><br>> > > v7.6 basically works if you set windows version to windows vista, and<br>> > > find out why the installer fails to create the 'Bonjour service'<br>
> > > registry stuff properly.<br>> > ><br>> > > I submitted 8 or so stub dll's to wine-patches that make iTunes v7.6<br>> > > actually start after installation. It checks for the dll's and<br>
> > > silently fails if they don't exist.<br>> > ><br>> > > I haven't done any further testing yet though, but it looks like it is<br>> > > probably a small installer bug that prevents itunes v7.6 from<br>
> > > installing without first manually creating those registry keys.<br>> > ><br>> ><br>> > The Bonjour service depends on the tcpip service. As far as I know,<br>> > we don't provide that service. What registry keys are you referring<br>
> > to?<br>> Keys like:<br>> In HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Bonjour Service:<br>> ImagePath="C:\...."<br>> Start=0x00000002<br>> Description="....."<br>><br>> Those are not created during install. If I manually add them the<br>
> 'bonjour service' will report success on start, but actually crash<br>> right after. However it is enough to satisfy the itunes installer.<br>> Without those it will report failure without even attempting to start<br>
> the service. :-)<br>><br><br></div></div>hmm according to the logs, the service is installed just fine. You'd<br>get an err otherwise. The dependencies aren't listed, but since we<br>don't have the tcpip service anyway, it won't make a difference<br>
(though that might be why it crashes when you get the service to<br>start.)<br><br>--<br><font color="#888888">James Hawkins<br><br><br></font></blockquote></div><br>