[Freeswitch-users] Skypiax as a windows service

[Giovanni Maruzzelli]

I tried it on Vista, and it works.

The trick for me (on Vista) is to use the same "local system" account
for both the Skype and the FS services, and *NOT* to use a personal
account. Go figure... :-)

BTW: I tried to use the *.bat you can find in mod_skypiax/configs/
renamed as *.cmd for starting multiple Skype client instances with a
single service, and it works.


Sincerely,

Giovanni Maruzzelli
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gmaruzz at celliax dot org
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On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 2:40 PM, UV <uv at yuvalhertzog.com> wrote:
> The service creation steps you described are identical to what we've done.
> The only difference, as having the Skype service running on "local system"
> doesn't seem to work on Win2K3 server...
> Maybe this works on XP but on Win2K3 it behaves as if it doesn't find the
> audio devices.
> It does work on a user (such as administrator) account.
>
> We tried it on few servers.
> Any insight?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: freeswitch-users-bounces at lists.freeswitch.org
> [mailto:freeswitch-users-bounces at lists.freeswitch.org] On Behalf Of Giovanni
> Maruzzelli
> Sent: Saturday, April 18, 2009 8:11 AM
> To: freeswitch-users at lists.freeswitch.org
> Subject: Re: [Freeswitch-users] Skypiax as a windows service
>
> On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 11:58 PM, Giovanni Maruzzelli
> <gmaruzz at celliax.org> wrote:
>> Then you install FS as service (freeswitch.exe -install servicename),
>> start FS as a service (under "local system"), manually (again, from
>> the "services" applet).
>
> make sure the FS service is owned by "local system" and that "Access
> desktop" is ticked.
>
>
> gm
>
> On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 11:58 PM, Giovanni Maruzzelli
> <gmaruzz at celliax.org> wrote:
>>> On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 4:02 PM, UV <uv at yuvalhertzog.com> wrote:
>>>> Give a shout if you get Skypiax working as a service.
>>>> I'll be happy to contribute to its wiki about it once you get it
> working.
>>
>> <shout>got Skypiax working as a service</shout>
>>
>> I will document this better in the future, but following is the
>> general idea, from a Vista Home machine:
>>
>> I assume you have FS configured and working with mod_skypiax (if run
>> from the command line). I mean, first you have to make sure all is
>> working as a "normal non-service application", as documented in the
>> wiki here http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/Skypiax#Skypiax_on_Windows
>> and in the video here
>> http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/Skypiax#Windows_Video_How_To
>>
>> To start the Skype client instances as services, you need to use
>> instsrv and srvany from "Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit Tools":
>>
> http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=9D467A69-57FF-4AE7-
> 96EE-B18C4790CFFD&displaylang=en
>>
>> Procedure for creating a service is detailed here:
>> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/137890 (or more shortly here:
>>
> http://www.sixxs.net/wiki/Configuring_Windows_Vista#.2816.29__Installing_AIC
> CU_Utility_as_a_Service
>> )
>>
>> You create an (empty) service with those tools, then you follow the
>> procedure steps and as "Parameters" ->"Application" you put the string
>> "C:\Program Files\Skype\Phone\Skype.exe /secondary /username:skypiax1
>> /password:xxx"
>>
>> *use your username and password in the string*
>>
>> Then, from the "services" applet in Control Center ->administrative
>> tools, you make sure the service is owned by "local system" and that
>> "Access desktop" is ticked.
>>
>> Start the service manually from the "services" applet.
>> Maybe it will appear a "the service wants to access the desktop". Go
>> to "show message" to see what Skype wants, and give some
>> configurations if needed.
>>
>> Then you install FS as service (freeswitch.exe -install servicename),
>> start FS as a service (under "local system"), manually (again, from
>> the "services" applet).
>> It will appear "the service wants to access the desktop". Go there and
>> give Skype authorization to be connected by FS, forever.
>>
>> Stop both services.
>>
>> Restart both services, manually. First the Skype clients,  then after
>> a while, FS.
>>
>> From another machine, make a Skype call to FS.
>>
>> If all works as expected, stop both services, make sure (via
>> "services" applet) the FS service will retry three times to start,
>> with a minute pause (just to allow for the Skype clients to start and
>> settle their connection with the network, to be on the safe side).
>>
>> Make the services to start "automatic".
>>
>> Reboot the machine, don't log in, make another test call to FS via
>> Skype, and... shout :-)
>>
>> PS: instead of having the service to start one only instance of skype,
>> you can probably make the service to start a .CMD file that will start
>> many instances, a la startskype.bat
>>
>> I'll look into this soon.
>>
>>
>> Sincerely,
>>
>> Giovanni Maruzzelli
>> =========================================
>> www.celliax.org
>> via Pierlombardo 9, 20135 Milano
>> Italy
>> gmaruzz at celliax dot org
>> Cell : +39-347-2665618
>> Fax : +39-02-87390039
>>
>
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