SLightly OT - Windows Services

[jtokach]

Sub (or anyone with knowledge),

I want to write a Windows Service in .NET that can consume web services and upload files using a web service. Previous experience had me setting up the service to use the NT Authority\Network Service account to use network resources. But that account is so limited, you're forced to write yet another service running as local system to do grunt work.

My question is, how does GBPVR update the EPG data? I looked at the recording service and it's running as Local System. So it's either using the aewsome code I'm after or GBPVRTray.exe, which is running as the user, doing the work. Since I'm always logged into my GBPVR box, I have no reason not to believe the later is true.

But, most antivirus software is running as local system yet they can update themselves whether or not a user is logged in. Someone, please, show me the light!

Jim

[sub]

My question is, how does GBPVR update the EPG data? I looked at the recording service and it's running as Local System. So it's either using the aewsome code I'm after or GBPVRTray.exe, which is running as the user, doing the work.

Its not doing anything exciting. Its just using TCP/IP to access the listings across the net (in the case of zap2it). Pretty much any process can do TCP/IP stuff unless you've installed firewall software that disallows it. This is different than access network drives etc though, which is more the sort of things that have permissions that relate to user accounts etc.

[jtokach]

That's too simple. I can't believe how too simple that is. So I simply create the web service with a method to copy a file from the local file system to the web servers file system, then reference the web service in my windows service app and viola?

[sub]

Yeah.

[jtokach]

If you could, picture the scenes in Sienfeld when Elaine would hear something unbeleivable and then say "No way!" while pushing the person halfway across the room. Consider yourself pushed. This project has just become much more enjoyable!