
C:\windows\ServiceProfiles\NetworkService\AppData\Local\ddclient.log.C:\windows\ServiceProfiles\LocalService\AppData\Local\ddclient.log.The location of the logs should be in the service account’s local Application Data folder, and is called ddclient.log If the ddclient application doesn’t appear to be working, then you probably want to check the contents of the log file first. You probably just want to use the Network Service account. Custom account: If you like, you can choose an existing account, which can be a standard user account or one you have created if specifically to run the ddclient application.This account is far more limited than Local System (or even Administrator) but still has the right to access the network as the machine. Network Service (recommended): Limited service account that is meant to run standard least-privileged services.There is nothing on a single box that this account can not do and it has the right to access the network as the machine. Local System: Completely trusted account, moreso than the administrator account.

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When you install using the NSIS installer, you will be prompted which Windows user you wish to run the ddclient service as (see the second screenshot above). In the meantime, if you want the sourcecode, let me know and I’ll email it to you. Since the original ddclient looks like it might be GPL’ed, I’ll pop the sourcecode up here at some stage. It should all be relatively simple to use, but here are some screenshots: Select Dynamic DNS server page This should hopefully save you the trouble of installing and configuring perl / ddclient on each Windows machine that you wish to perform DNS updates for. The only modifications I’ve made to ddclient itself is to Windows™-ify it a bit more (when running as a service, it stores the ddclient.cache and logfiles in the local application data folder) It’s essentially a PAR‘ed up version of a slightly modified ddclient, packaged as a Windows service with an NSIS wrapper around it so that you can install/uninstall it a bit easier.

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Click on the big green button with an arrow on it, download the installer, save it on a machine somewhere that you wish to refer to by a DNS name, run it, click the Next button a few times, enter the configuration values in the text fields shown below, click Next a few more times, and you should be right as rain.
