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adza
#1 Posted : Tuesday, December 13, 2011 6:37:57 AM
Rank: Newbie
Joined: 12/13/2011
Posts: 5
Location: Australia
Hi,

We're currently trialling out Screenconnect and was wondering if there is a way to start it manually instead of it running all the time in the background.

My main two concerns are performance (at bootup... as I already have too many services running), and security. (I prefer people to only be able to access through to my computer when I control the session, and not all the time).

I've tried setting the 3 services to MANUAL and created a start script with the following:

sc start "ScreenConnect Web Server"
sc start "ScreenConnect Session Manager"
sc start "ScreenConnect Relay"
@echo WAIT 4 SECONDS BEFORE OPENING BROWSER
ping 127.0.0.1
start http://127.0.0.1:81

However, for some reason I wasn't able to connect from another computer. (They could get through to the webpage, and download the files OK, but it just kept blinking up 'Waiting to connect...' in the system tray and never actually connected).

Just wondering if there was a proper way to accomplish this, or if I've done something wrong?

Thanks & Regards

Adam.
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bigdessert
#2 Posted : Tuesday, December 13, 2011 1:33:36 PM
Rank: Advanced Member
Joined: 9/14/2010
Posts: 458
Location: Minnesota
Why not just use the attended session for this? Seems like a lot less work and what it's actually meant for.
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Jake Morgan
#3 Posted : Tuesday, December 13, 2011 2:26:29 PM
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Joined: 4/9/2010
Posts: 859
That should work, but it's better to start the session manager service first. I'm not sure why things wouldn't connect. Do the services show as running?
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adza
#4 Posted : Tuesday, December 13, 2011 9:52:35 PM
Rank: Newbie
Joined: 12/13/2011
Posts: 5
Location: Australia
Thanks for your replies.

I'll change for the session manager to start first - thanks!

Bigdessert - The concern I have is that people have access through to a process on my computer 100% of the time. (Even when I'm not there... unless I physically turn the computer off or unplug the network). It also has more processes starting up at startup and using more resources. If I'm only going to be using this product once or twice a week - I really don't want it running in the back ground 100% of the time, and loading everytime my computer starts up.

(Actually - I don't like anything loading automatically unless I give it express permission to). As there is no feature / application that will start the service for me already included in the application - this seems like my only option.

I uninstalled and reinstalled the product - and it appears to be working OK now. I think the problem with the issue I was having 'waiting to connect...' was related to a port I was using instead. (I was using 81 and 443 instead of 8040 and 8041 and for some reason that doesn't seem to work).

Thanks for the replies!

Adam.
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