Webmaster Forum / ColdFusion / Advanced Techniques / May 2008

Yes, the ColdFusion .Net Service is installed and running.  I'm using the
latest 8.01 install version.  I chose to install it in a Multiserver config
with all options except the LifeCycle Data Services.  I've tried uninstalling
and reinstalling just the ColdFusion .Net Integration service but as of yet
can't seem to make the provided example work.
I'm not particularly familiar with .Net but am still charged with providing my
customers with the ability to interact with .Net once the server becomes
'active'.  So basically I'm just going down the list, install OS, install IIS,
install .Net framework, install CF8, verify everything works as expected.  Am I
missing the proverbial 'big red truck'?  Thanks in advance for your help -
Jacques

For this installation I have to do the MultiServer install.  If you install the
ColdFusion multiserver configuration or the J2EE configuration, you can specify
the directory in which to install the .NET Integration software, which in my
case is "D:\CF8DotNetService".  In this directory, the only log file is
'CF8DotNetsvc.log' and the only entry in it is from the last install:

"09/05/2008 12:45:29 INFO:    InstallService: Installed the service ColdFusion 8
.NET Service"

In the cflogs\server.log I see the following:
"Information","scheduler-9","05/13/08","12:34:38",,"Starting logging..."
"Information","scheduler-9","05/13/08","12:34:38",,"Starting license..."
"Information","scheduler-9","05/13/08","12:34:39",,"Enterprise Edition enabled"
"Information","scheduler-9","05/13/08","12:34:39",,"Starting crypto..."
"Information","scheduler-9","05/13/08","12:34:40",,"Installed JSafe JCE
provider: Version 3.6 RSA Security Inc. Crypto-J JCE Security Provider
(implements RSA, DSA, Diffie-Hellman, AES, DES, Triple DES, DESX, RC2, RC4,
RC5, PBE, MD2, MD5, RIPEMD160, SHA1, SHA224, SHA256, SHA384, SHA512, HMAC-MD5,
HMAC-RIPEMD160, HMAC-SHA1, HMAC-SHA224, HMAC-SHA256, HMAC-SHA384, HMAC-SHA512)"
"Information","scheduler-9","05/13/08","12:34:40",,"Starting security..."
"Information","scheduler-9","05/13/08","12:34:40",,"Starting scheduler..."
"Information","scheduler-9","05/13/08","12:34:40",,"Starting WatchService..."
"Information","scheduler-9","05/13/08","12:34:40",,"Starting debugging..."
"Information","scheduler-9","05/13/08","12:34:40",,"Starting sql..."
"Information","scheduler-9","05/13/08","12:34:43",,"Pool Manager Started"
"Information","scheduler-9","05/13/08","12:34:43",,"Starting mail..."
"Information","scheduler-9","05/13/08","12:34:43",,"Starting runtime..."
"Information","scheduler-9","05/13/08","12:34:43",,"CORBA Configuration not
enabled"
"Information","scheduler-9","05/13/08","12:34:43",,"Starting cron..."
"Information","scheduler-9","05/13/08","12:34:44",,"Starting registry..."
"Information","scheduler-9","05/13/08","12:34:44",,"Starting client..."
"Information","scheduler-9","05/13/08","12:34:44",,"The metrics service is
disabled for the J2EE edition"
"Information","scheduler-9","05/13/08","12:34:44",,"Starting xmlrpc..."
"Information","scheduler-9","05/13/08","12:34:45",,"Starting graphing..."
"Information","scheduler-9","05/13/08","12:34:45",,"Starting verity..."
"Information","scheduler-9","05/13/08","12:34:45",,"Starting archive..."
"Information","scheduler-9","05/13/08","12:34:45",,"Starting document..."
"Information","scheduler-9","05/13/08","12:34:46",,"Starting eventgateway..."
"Information","scheduler-9","05/13/08","12:34:47",,"Starting FlexAssembler..."
"Information","scheduler-9","05/13/08","12:34:47",,"Starting .NET..."
"Information","scheduler-9","05/13/08","12:34:47",,"Starting Monitoring..."
"Information","scheduler-9","05/13/08","12:34:49",,"ColdFusion started"

So it *seems* like it should be chatting.  When I perform a netstat I see the
ports are alive:
  TCP    dev0-henry:6085        dev0-henry.company.local:0  LISTENING
  TCP    dev0-henry:6086        dev0-henry.company.local:0  LISTENING

One change I've made is changing the original test code to include the
'assemby' attribute such that the call is now:
    <cfobject type=".NET" name="pingClass"
            class="System.Net.NetworkInformation.Ping"
            assembly = "C:/Net/Assemblies/system.dll">

Although this is where I've copied the framework .dll's and the process has
full rights to the directory, I get:
"Class System.Net.NetworkInformation.Ping not found in the specified assembly
list."

I can't tell if I'm getting closer or further from an answer.  Any/all help is
very much appreciated.  Thank you.

#2 is most likely the answer.
I got the same errors with my multi-server installation. My neo-dotnet.xml had
install_dir=C:\Work\CF\depot\ColdFusion\cf_main\cfusion\jnbridge which is
clearly a path from the CF developer's and not my install_path.  After updating
to the jnbridge directory of my installation and restarting cf appserver my
dotnet pages work.

SOLUTION: Oddly enough, where the service was installed was at the root of the
problem.

After the CF Service (CFusion JRun instance) was installed, for security
reasons it is assigned to run under a service account.  This service account
did not have access to the directory where the CFdotNetService was installed.  
Hence it did not believe that it was installed.  Oddly enough there were no
'file not found' or permission errors logged.

Thank you for your assistance.