[Box Backup] Failed to setup location

[Chris Wilson]

Hi Stuart and Pete,

On Fri, 7 Sep 2007, Stuart Sanders wrote:

>> Related to that I think, was the weird thing we saw this morning when 
>> the other Admin on the box logged in, he saw a series of several of 
>> those 'Box Backup crashed, Report to Microsoft?' boxes.  So, I think 
>> what was happening was that my testing was generating those boxes, but 
>> they were being sent to his "account" (maybe he installed the original 
>> service under that account, but I'm sure I installed and removed it 
>> several times under my account, which also is in the Admin group)...
>
> Are you logging in via remote desktop and he logging in via local 
> keyboard/monitor.  I've seen the behaviour you describe.  I usually do 
> work via remote desktop, and I only ever see the crash reports when 
> physically at the machine and keyboard.  I have always attributed it to 
> the fact that terminal services sessions are not 100% the same as the 
> primary logon.  I've seen software for example that detects when you are 
> in a terminal services session and refuse to install/update.  Anyway 
> just a guess.

Good point! There is a special option on Remote Desktop clients to connect 
to the "console" of the server, where these error messages ought to appear 
(this locks out any user currently logged into the real console).

If you don't use that option, you'll end up connecting to another 
"virtual" desktop, which doesn't interfere with admins on the real 
console, and you won't see the error messages.

Cheers, Chris.
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