Re: Tor as windows service

[Martin Balvers <m.balvers@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Thanks for the reply's everyone :)
I just copied the torrc file to the tor program directory and installed
Tor as a sevice with the -install command.
It worked perfectly.

Martin


mbgsvq102@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Hi Martin,
> 
> 
>>>I am running a Tor client at work, and I was wondering how I could
> 
> [..]
> 
>>>running it on win2000 without admin rights.
> 
> 
> If you follow the instructions in the FAQ (posted by Bob) and remember
> to copy the files in the DataDirectory to C:\Program Files\Tor (posted
> by Bob & Pat Frank) everything should work.
> 
> If Tor needs to have Administrator rights, start Services (from Control
> Panel | Administrative Tools or just type services.msc from a command
> prompt), right-click on the Tor service and select Properties. Click on
> the Log On tab and check that it's set to Local System account. If it
> still doesn't run you can force it to use a specific user account
> (either Administrator, or a user that you've created that belongs to the
> Administrators group).
> 
> Hope that helps.
>