Re: [smartmontools-support] smartd in Windows Vista

[Frédéric L. W. M. <lis...@pe...>]

On Sat, 5 Apr 2008, Christian Franke wrote:

> Frédéric L. W. Meunier wrote:
>> I'm new to Windows Vista and installed smartmontools on it. 
>> smartctl works fine, but smartd reports the following in Event 
>> Viewer:
>>
>> "Service Control Manager Eventlog Provider
>>
>> The SmartD Service service is marked as an interactive service. 
>> However, the system is configured to not allow interactive 
>> services.  This service may not function properly."
>>
>> I installed the service from a cmd.exe running as 
>> administrator, so I don't know what's wrong.
>>
>> Is it a Vista thing or smartd needs the required support ?
>> 
>
> Hi Frédéric,
>
> Smartd has to be marked as interactive for the warning message box 
> feature only (-m sysmsgbox).
>
> At least on XP, the interactive setting can be disabled from the command 
> line by
>
>  sc config smartd type= own
>
> Interactive services are apparently forbidden by default on Vista. I 
> don't know whether this can be changed. Like other useful things like 
> disabling autorun, the setting is probably hidden in group policy editor 
> (run "gpedit.msc")
>
>> While smartd appears to be working, I doubt if this message 
>> means the popup won't show up if something bad occurs.
>> 
>
> That is correct.

I got it to work changing the service "Interactive Services 
Detection" from Manual to Automatic in services.msc.