{"id":635,"date":"2011-02-14T16:48:29","date_gmt":"2011-02-14T21:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swildow.darktech.org\/wp\/?p=635"},"modified":"2011-02-14T16:48:29","modified_gmt":"2011-02-14T21:48:29","slug":"how-to-configure-dropbox-as-a-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.wildow.com\/blog\/?p=635","title":{"rendered":"How to configure Dropbox as a service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/superuser.com\/questions\/41992\/how-to-configure-dropbox-as-a-service\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/superuser.com\/questions\/41992\/how-to-configure-dropbox-as-a-service<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here is the procedure given on this link:<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nSince Dropbox will normally only work when a user is logged in, we will have to install and use it first via remote desktop, before it can be turned it into a Service.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Remote desktop to your WHS as administrator<\/li>\n<li>Get DropBox from their website.<\/li>\n<li>Install and configure Dropbox as you like. e.g. I made a special share on my WHS named Dropbox before the installation and linked Dropbox to this share. Then exit dropbox from the system tray.<\/li>\n<li>Similar to Foldershare, you will need instsrv.exe and srvany.exe from the Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit Tools.<\/li>\n<li>Copy instsrv.exe to C:\\Program Files\\Dropbox<\/li>\n<li>Copy srvany.exe to C:\\Program Files\\Dropbox<\/li>\n<li>execute \u201cC:\\Program Files\\Dropbox\\instsrv.exe\u201d Dropbox \u201cC:\\Program Files\\Dropbox\\srvany.exe\u201d<\/li>\n<li>execute reg ADD HKLM\\SYSTEM\\CurrentControlSet\\Services\\Dropbox\\Parameters \/v Application \/d \u201cC:\\Program Files\\Dropbox\\Dropbox.exe\u201d<\/li>\n<li>execute reg ADD HKLM\\SYSTEM\\CurrentControlSet\\Services\\Dropbox\\Parameters \/v AppDirectory \/d \u201cC:\\Program Files\\Dropbox\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Delete or move the shorcut to Dropbox away from the startfolder (Start -&gt; All Programs -&gt; Startup) on the startmenu.<\/li>\n<li>Move (cut\/paste) ALL the files from C:\\Documents and Settings\\Administrator\\Local Settings\\DropBox to C:\\Documents and Settings\\Default User\\Application Data\\Dropbox<\/li>\n<li>execute net start Dropbox<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/superuser.com\/questions\/41992\/how-to-configure-dropbox-as-a-service Here is the procedure given on this link:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wildow.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wildow.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wildow.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wildow.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wildow.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=635"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.wildow.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":637,"href":"http:\/\/www.wildow.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635\/revisions\/637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wildow.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wildow.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wildow.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}