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Shared Serial Ports - Working with services

Service installation

  1. After successful driver installation you may work directly with the service. First of all you have to register it using registration code you have received and REG command-line argument. Registration should be completed this way: ss_service.exe REG "YOUR REG NAME" "YOUR REG CODE". Warning: if you have registered Shared Serial Ports using the method above, you may re-register it again to OEM license only.
  2. After registration, the service needs to be installed in the target environment. To do this type-in the following command-line argument "ss_service.exe INSTALL". If the service is installed successfully, you will get corresponding message, alternatively, you will get "Error" message.
  3. At last, you may start the service by executing "ss_service.exe ENABLE" command.

Service uninstallation

If you want to uninstall Shared Serial Ports' service, execute the following set of operations:

  1. If the service is currently running, stop it using "ss_service.exe DISABLE" command-line argument.
  2. Enter "ss_service.exe UNINSTALL" command-line argument to uninstall the service.

COMMANDS REFERENCE

The list of instructions for the service follows:

INSTALL - Service installation
UNINSTALL - Service uninstallation
ENABLE - Enable service
DISABLE - Stop service
REG "NAME" "CODE" - Service registration

Here are several examples:

ss_service.exe INSTALL - install Shared Serial Ports service
ss_service.exe ENABLE - start Shared Serial Ports service