Running as a Service

[LostSoulfly]

I've been working on a service that runs in session 0 on windows 7+ machines, and launches a GUI in the user's session that allows me to do certain things with System access.

However, I can't get the processes to communicate with TinyIpc. If I run my service as a normal program, it works without any changes, but as soon as it's running as System (in session 0) it fails to receive messages from TinyIpc.

Client:

TinyMessageBus ipc = new TinyMessageBus("test");
ipc.PublishAsync(CreateHelloPacket());

Service:

ipc = new TinyMessageBus("test");
ipc.MessageReceived +=
            (sender, e) => OnMessage(e.Message);

private void OnMessage(byte[] message)
    {
      //...
    }

Any ideas on how to get them to communicate together?

[LostSoulfly]

For anyone having the same issue, I unfortunately had to switch to named pipes and run the pipe server in the client (in the user's session), and the client in session 0 to get around the integrity/access issues.

[DavidZidar]

I'm closing this old issue, I never knew what to do about it.

[LostSoulfly]

Thinking back on this, I believe what I had to do was use a different library that allowed me to run the server in the user's session and connect to it from session 0. The connection works when connecting from secure -> insecure, but not the other way around.

[DavidZidar]

Ah, I see. Thanks for the info, not easy to remember after almost 4 years. 😄