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Many of you are probably aware that the free version of Hamachi no longer officially supports running as a service.

Is there any way I could still get Hamachi to run as a service?

I need to be able to remotely access my computers from outside of the network when NO user is logged into the computer. Specifically this is important for remote desktop, file sharing, file syncing, and computer backups.

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  • Asking for software recommendations is usually not constructive, so I removed that part. If people say it's not possible and happen to suggest alternatives, so be it. I don't know Hamachi all to well but isn't TeamViewer Host a possibility here?
    – slhck
    Jan 1, 2013 at 11:55

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It appears Hamachi still technical is running as a service but they have chose to monitor by some other means whether the user is actual active or not. If the computer is on the lock screen where you select the user account to login to (even if a user is actually logged in) Hamachi will turn off.

For the above mentioned reasons I have decided to switch to NeoRouter. NeoRouter so far appears to do everything Hamachi did and then some. Built in Windows Remote desktop, Wake-on-Lan, shared folders, command line interface, run from USB drive, network bridging, etc. The only catch is you need one computer that is always on to act as the "server" to tell the other computers how to connect to each other.

A note on setting up the NeoRouter server: When I first installed it it would not connect (which you can test via https://www.neorouter.com/Dashboard/domainstatus.aspx). I solved this by checking the Windows firewall and noticing the NRServer and NRService exceptions were being blocked in my private network.

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The problem is not that Hamachi doesn't run as a service anymore, it is more so that it requires Hamachi UI to be running for it to work. Obviously, if one is not logged into their computer, the UI won't be running.

There's a similar question on ServerVault, where the answer allows for transfer of the session back to the local machine instead of logging out (and terminating the UI).

Here's the command: (Note: Number 1 below is your session ID. To know what your current session ID, in the console, run query user or open the task manager and go to users and look at your session ID)

tscon 1 /dest:console

The only caveat is that your local session is now unlocked, so if you'd like lock the computer as well, create a .bat file with the following commands:

tscon 1 /dest:console
rundll32.exe user32.dll, LockWorkStation

Here's the above mentioned link for more details: https://serverfault.com/questions/7107/how-to-prevent-hamachi-service-stop-when-remote-desktop-disconnects-on-windows-x

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  • Thanks for the tip, i added more details for the answer to be self contained.
    – Will
    Jun 30, 2015 at 6:22
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it is now 2018, and as I can see, Hamachi runs as a service if you buy a subscription for your network.

I could not find any documentation saying that, but as my experience when I upgraded my network with a paid subscription, I didn't even have to restart the machine or Hamachi, it was automatically reconfigured and run.

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  • This is exactly what the original question was about and doesn't add anything new. Please do not post answers unless they are helpful.
    – music2myear
    Feb 12, 2018 at 22:06
  • Oh okay, I did not see the word "free". It is better if the title of the question says "How can I run the free version of Hamachi as a service?" Sorry for disturbing.
    – Quan
    Feb 12, 2018 at 22:30
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    – music2myear
    Feb 12, 2018 at 22:34
  • @music2myear This definitely adds something new. I am running into this problem, it is 2018 and I would like to know if purchasing a paid subscription for Hamachi will cause it to run as a service and resolve the problem indicated in the question. Here is a user pointing out that indeed Hamachi will run as a service if you purchase the paid subscription, even though it doesn't seem to be documented. That is not indicated anywhere else.
    – Dan Nissenbaum
    Sep 22, 2018 at 19:21
  • I can confirm that upgrading to a paid subscription for the Hamachi VPN network resolves the problem. You can disconnect from (i.e.) RDP and Hamachi stays active on the machine.
    – Dan Nissenbaum
    Sep 22, 2018 at 19:32
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Maybe You can make use of the tool called exe2svc, hosted on here. It can turn any .exe into a service. Just edit the .xml file to Your needs.

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The way I solved the problem is the following. I went into policy editor > Computer Conf. > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Remote Desktop Services > Remote Connection Host > Connections > Restrict Desktop Remote services users to a single RDP session > Disabled the rule. After that you can:

  • go to the local machine (or use any remote software like TeamViewer)
  • log in with your credentials
  • start-up Hamachi
  • LOCK THE ACCOUNT so it will stay logged on

Now if you log in with RDP and go to task manager > users you will see that you have two users logged in. After that, you can log in\log out with RDP how many times you want it will not log off the local session and thus Hamachi will stay on.

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