[ECC2-109] Best Practices Thread - Tech Support Forums

viztech · December 7th, 2002, 11:31 PM

During the last month or so, there has been a lot of maturation occuring with the ECC2 client. We are on the 5th version (CF/WD) of the Win 32 client, unofficial Linux/*nix clients are crunching away, and there are GUI wrappers available for Windows and Linux

What have we learned? What is the best way to use the clients, what works to go through firewalls, sneakernetting, client bugs, etc.

Here are my observations...

Win 2000.
I'm using the CD,CE and CF clients installed as a service on my 3 Win 2K boxes here at home.

Advantages-
No need to worry about logging in! It runs when the machine has booted!

It shuts down cleanly, no need to use ctrl+C to stop the client.

Minor disadvantage-
The client does not save it's incremental work between DP finds in the plist, so some work has to be redone when the machine shuts down.

Win 98SE
Again using the CE or CF client along with gilcrest's wonderful ecc2GUI v0.4

It's truly a wonderful thing.

In the GUI, select
AutoStart ecc2 Client
AutoStop on Close
Start ecc2GUI in tray
and
ECC2 Client hidden

I add a shortcut to the ecc2GUI.exe in my \Windows\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\StartUp\ folder, and remove any startup shortcut to the CLIclient.exe file.

Advantages-
The client starts whenever anyone logs in.

No need for the ctrl+C command to gracefully shut down the client when you shut down the computer! [edit] Only seems to work on some 9X boxes.

[/edit]

The kids aren't as liable to shut down the client window.

Disadvantages-
Don't know of any.

How about you?

From eweruk- While running the client as a service on Win 2K (should be able to do the same on XP) If you want to use the GUI under W2K, at least you can setup the shortcut in your profile so it does not run when others log in. Good one!

viz

viztech · December 10th, 2002, 10:12 AM

Come on ECC2 ppl, I need some help here!

Please be sure to mention your OS and client version.

viz

DVNT1 · December 10th, 2002, 10:21 AM

I run all ECC2 clients as a service too. No disadvantages known at this time!

eweruk · December 10th, 2002, 11:30 AM

I run almost all of my clients as a service under W2K SP3 with no issues to report. I also use gilcrest's wonderful ecc2GUI with W2K to report, again no issues.

If you want to use the GUI under W2K, at least you can setup the shortcut in your profile so it does not run when others log in.

Hoping for a proxy client soon so I do not have to dump to floppy.

squeech · December 10th, 2002, 11:47 AM

Running clients as a service without any required startup/shutdown maintenance on my WinXP Pro box...priceless

I am running the XsCode GUI app. Works awesome on a single box for settings changes and viewing progress (I like the links to all the official pages built in as well

)

I am still having difficulty with multiple client control however, and will be waiting to hear on my other thread if anyone has shared my experiences. If I can get that working, I will sing the XsCode's praises forever (I think the other one is a little too flashy for me).

DutchMaster · December 10th, 2002, 12:08 PM

Yeah no problems here. Hasn't crashed on me. Works fine under win98-1st

dustyrun · December 10th, 2002, 12:15 PM

I am currently running it as a service on my home machines and my work machine. My work machine seems to be running fine but Jaye has reported that it has found 4 bad dp's.. the only 4 that he has seen. But he says that they were counted..

But they are all running the CF version and doing fine.

Rick

**EvilRick** · December 10th, 2002, 12:41 PM

I'm just now installing the GUI for Win32 on a couple machines.

Seems to be workening okay.

Using an old WB/CD vergion. Waitin' on some dude to send me an updated CF . . .

viztech · December 10th, 2002, 01:01 PM

eweruk-

Can you get to the sneakered machines from a Internet-enabled machine? In ECCp-109, I used the manual DP updater to flush them from my home network.

How are you flushing them now?

E.R.-

Can I send it to you via floppy?

viz

**EvilRick** · December 10th, 2002, 02:53 PM

Thank you viz, but I have acquired the "CF" version, so I'm up and running again. like i stopped anyway

The v0.4 GUI is not reporting that its "CF" though that's what shows in the DOS Prompt when I start it up. "CF/WD" actually.

The GUI is showing ECC2 Core: WB Client: CD

And still another machine, the GUI is showing WC and CE.