David White wrote:
> Thanks in advance for any pointers or help you can provide...
>
> I am rather new to all this so forgive any newbie mistakes...
>
> I have a WinNT Service written in C#. Once it starts up, it exports an
> IPC-based remote object interface to permit another component of my
> application (a C# Windows Forms application) to use the service as a
> proxy of sorts.
>
> The Service runs in the LocalSystem account. The Windows Forms
> application is running on the same machine but on the user's desktop.
>
> When I attempt to access the remote object's method, I get an exception
> thrown when the attempt is made to connect to the IPC port. It reads,
> "failed to connect to an IPC port: access is denied".
>
> Using SysInternals' ProcessExplorer, I have taken a look at the IPC
> which the service has made available. I can see that its security
> permissions on the named pipe basically grants all to the System
> account. But it denies all to Network. There are no other
> accounts/groups listed.
>
> From the above it seems to make sense that my application cannot
> connect to complete the remote call. The question is, what is needed to
> permit this call to complete and how do I do it?
>