Windows XP - when running as service modem fails

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BHarvey
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Post by BHarvey »

When running under Windows XP as a service - no matter if the HM properties are set to logon as <username>/<password> or as Local System - the following issue occurs:

HM does not recognize modem/COM port and fails to send page; shows error "Error: Error Opening COM port (TAPI10000)"
Everything works fine when not running as a service.

This has been tested on a clean XP build as well as with SP1 and hotfixes.

Thanks,

Brad
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Post by KS-Soft »

Cannot reproduce the problem. HostMonitor works fine on our XP systems.
Have one suggestion, may be it will help: add FixedPagingPort=COM3 line into [Misc] section of the hostmon.ini file and restart service. COM3 its for example, you should use COM port that was assigned to modem.

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Alex
BHarvey
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Post by BHarvey »

Any chance you can try this on one of the XP SP1 systems that has problems with the logoff/logon management issue?

Thanks again for your excellent support,

Brad
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Post by KS-Soft »

Of course I tried. It works fine. Did you try to use fixed COM port?

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Alex
BHarvey
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Post by BHarvey »

Yes. The problem is the device shows unchangeable IRQ settings that do not
correspond to defined COM ports.
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Post by KS-Soft »

H'm, its one of cases when I don't know what to say :sad:
TAPI devices are not related to current user settings, it means program must work in the same way under any account. I am still checking MS documentation but did not find anything useful yet...

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Alex
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