Tuesday, October 09, 2007

Remote Administrator v2.2 on Windows Server 2003 Standard x64 Edition

To install Radmin v2.2 on Windows x64 edition:

First install Radmin Server v2.2 on your computer.
Due to how Microsoft has changed its handling of 32bit applications under XP 64bit, the default installer for Radmin does not work properly.
When the installer says to put the r_server into system32, Microsoft re-directs the file to C:\WINDOWS\SysWOW64. Unfortunately, Microsoft was not also smart enough to intercept the service creation call and change that path as well. Evidently on the X64 OS, the service has to be in the C:\Windows\SysWOW64

The following information is to be used at your own risk.
Go to Start -> Run -> Type Regedit and press “Enter” button.
Go to [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\r_server]
Look for the Imagepath string that looks like "c:\windows\system32\r_server.exe /service" Change the “C:\Windows\System32” to “C:\Windows\SysWOW64”
Use F3 to search for any occurrences and then you can start your service just fine.
Go to Start -> All Programs ->Remote Administrator v2.2 -> Start Remote Administrator server.

My experience has been on Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Standard x64 Edition Version 5.2.3790 Service Pack 1 Build 3790 that the standard install did exactly what it was expected to, placed the r_server.exe in the c:\windows\SysWOW64 directory and correctly installed the service to the same path, but it would not start nor did it generate any logs or errors other than the service reported that it did not start in the time expected.
Evidently on the X64 OS, the service has to be in the C:\Windows\SysWOW64 or it will not start. Once I made the coresponding change to the registry, r_server worked as expected.

Cheers!

File (5GB) Copy Error to external hard drive

Was unable to copy 5GB *.iso file from Windows XP to external hard drive 160GB.
Error: Not enough disk space
 
Solution:
FAT32 does not support files over 4 GB in size.  Reformat the external drive to NTFS, you should be fine.
But, we dont want to do that as other version of windows on FAT32 would not see the drive then.



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