Hendrik van Rooyen wrote: > "Irmen de Jong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> Gabriel Genellina wrote: >> >>> Try running the service impersonating another user (not LOCAL_SERVICE, >>> the default). >>> You can change that from the service control panel. >> Alas, that didn't change anything. >> I made it run as a user account that has admin privileges even, >> and it still doesn't respond to the broadcasts. :-( >> > > I am not sure if this is at all relevant - but I seem to recall seeing > something once that had a list of socket numbers, splitting them > between UDP & TCP - can the socket actually rx UDP? > That's probably a red herring, Hendrik. Both UDP and TCP define ports from 1 through 65535, and so a port number doesn't "belong" to one protocol or the other.
It's most likely, I suspect without knowing to much about it, that the service is stalling because of a failure to "pump" Windows messages. Irmen, are you taking any action in your service to ignore Windows messages that your service process receives? regards Steve -- Steve Holden +44 150 684 7255 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC/Ltd http://www.holdenweb.com Skype: holdenweb http://del.icio.us/steve.holden Recent Ramblings http://holdenweb.blogspot.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list