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Walkthrough - Fileshare as a Service

Restriction: This is only applicable to Windows platforms.

This example demonstrates several of the features described in this chapter. We'll start a Fileshare server, just as we did in the chapter Using Enterprise Server with Fileshare, but this time we'll use a configuration file, install Fileshare as a Windows service, and enable synchronous communications and tracing.

First make sure you do not have a Fileshare server currently running.

Create file fs.cfg, containing:

/s server1
/wd c:\fsdir
/pf pass.dat
/sc
/tr f

Save this file to c:\windows\system32.
If you have not already done so (you may have already done this in the Walkthrough - Securing a Fileshare Server in theFSView section), create file pass.dat in your c:\fsdir directory by entering:
```
fs /pf pass.dat /u FSVIEW /pw Meryton
```
The existence of this password file enables you to use FSView.
To install the Fileshare service. at a command prompt, enter:
```
fsservice -i
```
Click Start > Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Services
Select Micro Focus Fileshare Service and click Start.
You can also if you wish double-click Micro Focus Fileshare Service and change its Startup Type to Automatic, so that it will start whenever you start Windows.