Re: win32 service and sockets

From: Tom Brown (brown_at_esteem.com)
Date: 02/09/05 

To: python-list@python.org
Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2005 09:18:51 -0800

On Tuesday 08 February 2005 16:41, Tom Brown wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I created a win32 service for XPPro called N4010ATestService.py (see
> below). The service runs as a particular user with administrative rights.
> It starts a thread that creates a simple socket server
> (N4010ASocketServer.py -- also below) that just waits for 20 character
> string. When I run the socket server by itself the test client can connect
> to the server and send a 20 character string just fine. When I run the
> service, the server will bind to the port but the client cannot connect. I
> verified the server was listening on the given port using netstat -an. The
> client eventually times out. Why isn't the server accepting connections
> when run in a service?
>
> Thanks,
> Tom
>

Well, I have found that it works if I launch the client on the same machine as
the service. It will not work from a remote machine. Any ideas?

Thanks,
Tom

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