Windows Server 2003 & Small Business Server 2003
Why would you want a program like Dropbox running as a service on your computer or server? I will give you two scenarios where it can be very useful to set up Dropbox as a user defined service.
First, let’s say you have the Dropbox client running on a server and the Dropbox folder is in a share that everyone in the company has mapped as a network drive. Dropbox works great as long as the server is logged in, but what about when the server gets rebooted? Sure,you could have the server just log itself in when it gets rebooted, but that’s not a secure option, nor the best option.
Or, what if you have a terminal server that has the Dropbox client running and the Dropbox folder is made available to all the terminal servers users on a secondary hard drive or hard drive partition? As long as the administrator account is logged in, Dropbox works great. What about when the server gets rebooted, or someone performs work in the administrator account and then logs the administrator out?
How about turning Dropbox into a service that will stay running as long as the server is running? That way you can be assured that your end users are getting the most up to date Dropbox syncs. (more…)
