I've been attempting to have a serial comm. app. called Phoenix Link run on a Windows 2003 server as a service. I've used Srvany.exe to create the service and added the necessary registry key and values. The service starts fine, all is well. Problem is that the application doesn't appear to function properly. I'll provide a little background; We've got a cnc machine on the production floor who's controller can pull files off a PC over a serial port. We've installed a wireless serial device server to bridge the server to the machine's controller over the LAN. If I login to that server and manually run this Phoenix Link application everything works fine; the controller can see the server, send and recieve files etc. But with the application running as a service, the server does not appear to respond. Interestingly, with the service running AND the app. started manually, it will also fail. It is an older application which uses a simple .ini file for its configuration. How can I get this application to run properly as a service? Thanks in advance
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