How are you starting Proxo under Windows XP?

[Oddysey]

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Quote:Oddysey: If I put it into the All Users startup folder, then each user would be starting their own copy of Proxo when they log on. Because you aren't forced to log out in XP before another user is logged on, then you'd have more than once copy of Proxo running. That will be a problem, because both of them would be trying to listen to port 8080 and accessing the same configuration files at the same time.

According to my sources, each logged on user, active or in the background, gets their own copy of the environment, including all of the ports and addresses. In theory, no user's proggies can interfere with another user's proggies or data. The active user's environment is effectively the master environment, and any background user's environment is mapped to some random area of memory/ports for the duration of inactivity. This allows background d/l's, print jobs, etc. to execute, even when the active user has been switched over to someone else.

Makes sense to me. After all, NT-class OS's have always been multi-tasking, multi-user OS's anyway. If you think about it, all that Fast User Switching really does is allow the local console to imitate several remote workstations. For years, users who logged in remotely have been able to access various parts of the OS environment (usually without fail). Ditto for any local users where Fast User Switching is enabled. But you could revert to single-user local mode by simply disabling Fast User Switching, thus forcing the system to load proggies for only one user at a time. The trade-off is slower logging times, both off and on, but the value of one versus the other is up to you.

As I see it, your options are:
A> let proxo load once (preferably in a group with permissions set just for Proxo), and all users have to use the same config set;
B> let each user run Proxo with their own config sets;
C> disable Fast User Switching; or
D> use 3rd party software.

[PUNT] The ball's back in your court. :o

Quote:Of course XP SP2 is going to have a firewall and pop-up blocker, so maybe I won't need Proxo on that machine [rolleyes]

Don't hold your breath there, bunky! In order to be half as good as Proxo, MS would have had to finagle the code from Scott (or as we now know, his estate). Even then, they'd find some way to muck it up, and come out with a crippled version equivalent to Naoko 2.0! Getting rid of Proxo is like going down to First Avenue, and handing your wallet to the first wino you see. Before you can hop a bus back home, your ID will be so "pwned".... You get my drift. Stay the course, my man, you'll sleep better for it, I'm sure.


Oddysey