winrash and ntservice

[Chris Morgan]

I'm still looking for someone to take over winrash development.  It's
a sourceforge project written in c under visual studio 6.  I can give
developer access and help to anyone interested.

Chris


On 7/22/05, Paul Walker <pwalker at paradise.net.nz> wrote:
> I just joined this list and noticed the nt service messages (below)
> 
> I haven't investigated what winrash is, but _assuming_ that you need it
> as a service on NT, then the problem appears to be that it needs to
> display windows (or interact with the user somehow).
> 
> The main problem will be that services run on their own desktop (unique
> to the service, not the logon, screensaver or iteractive desktops).
> 
> A message box can be displayed on the interactive desktop by using the
> MB_SERVICE_NOTIFICATION flag with MessageBox().
> 
> To actually display some more complex UI, you need to create the window
> on the correct desktop.
> Check MSDN (msdn.microsoft.com) for details, but the following is what
> is probably required:
> 1. Call OpenInputDesktop().
> 2. Call SetThreadDesktop() to allow the current thread to use that
> desktop.
> 3. Create your windows etc.
> 
> Note the security risk msdn notes for SetThreadDesktop. This is because
> the service is probably running as a priviledged user (the LocalSystem
> account unless specified otherwise). It will need the elevated
> priviledges to attach to the desktop which will have an ACL that only
> allows the current logged in user).
> 
> Hope that's enough to get someone working on this (sorry, I'm not
> volunteering :-(
> 
> 
> 
> Robert Shearman wrote:
> 
> >>
> >>
> >> Only on Win95/98/ME.
> >
> >
> >
> > I thought we'd fixed the problems with running it as a service on NT
> > so that it could again be run automatically?
> >
> 
> Not as far as i know. It was recommended to mark the winrash service as
> "allowed to interact with desktop" or some such. It didn't help though.
> 
> //Jakob
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