Nextcloud-Client as Service? (Windows)

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Hey everybody

Does anyone know if its possible to setup the nextcloud-syncclient as a (local) service, so that no user needs to interactively log into the windows machine?

thank you in advance!

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Not at the moment. There is feature request since quite some time now:

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Hi,

maybe you can work around it with the Windows Task Sheduler. I think running the task with the option “Run wether user is logged on or not”.

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actually this sounds interesting, didn’t even think about that at all.

I’ll give it a try as soon as I find a nice timeslot for that and come back with results :slight_smile:

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I am perhaps a little late here but it is working perfectly with the task manager, I was using a configuration for google drive and just modify it for nexcloud and don’t have any problem.
So I post the procedure here for the person who need it.

  • install the nextcloud client without the option “Launch at system startup”
  • configure the folder to sync
  • open the task manager and create a new task ( see the configuration on the screenshot)
  • for the user, use the same user account as the one for the client install
  • Reboot the computer
  • no need to login on your account, it should sync automatically

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whoa, wasnt expecting any answers anymore - but somehow someone found a way to do it!

I’ll check this after easter and will come back to this topic again, thank you mate for your how-to!

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Thanks for your response, It’s now working for me too on windows server 2012 & 2016.

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Excelente!

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Hi there,
it seems to work properly. But if I try later to add another folder to sync, the Client won’t accept this folder. I can set the mark in front off the folder name and press Apply after that.

The Window close itself and after reopening the folder name is unchecked.

Do you have a suggestion?

Greets

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Did you stop the running task before editing the folders to sync?

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Hello,
Startup task works correctly with version 3.13.3
But with version 3.14.1 it doesn’t work at all.
I’ve tried redoing the settings, connections, etc., without success.
The task starts fine, but nextcloud.exe won’t start.
I had to reinstall the previous version
Do you know why?
Greets

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3.14.0 still works fine. With 3.14.1 it stops working with the following log:

[ warning default unknown:0 ]:	Failed to create Direct Composition device: COM error 0x80070005: Access is denied.

where it should say:

 [ info nextcloud.gui.folder.navigationpane C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Temp\windows-26085\client-building\desktop\src\gui\navigationpanehelper.cpp:106 ]:	Explorer Cloud storage provider: saving path "E:\\Nextcloud" to CLSID "{c5f98c46-dd18-46fa-9d2f-9024fa556a17}"

So it might be writing to the following registry String is not allowed when invoked through the task scheduler.
HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-4059009405-2377646701-1444791166-1000\Software\Classes\CLSID\{c5f98c46-dd18-46fa-9d2f-9024fa556a17}\Instance\InitPropertyBag\TargetFolderPath

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i am facing the same issue when using NSSM to run nextcloud as service…

if i log in as the named user, it works fine. When i use the normal user account and start the service, the log is full with the COM error.