The Windows hub works the same as the Linux one, with a Windows service. Synchronet for Windows must be on the same machine. First prepare the door BBS: the sbbs.ini and modopts.ini changes are the same on Windows.

The Windows hub was tested under Wine with a stand-in BBS. It hasn't yet been run against a real Synchronet for Windows; reports welcome.

1. Make a folder C:\doorhub and copy doorhub.exe from doorhub-0.1.0-windows-x64.zip into it. (Another folder works too; then add -d C:\your\folder to every command, or set the environment variable DOORHUB_DIR.)

2. Open a Command Prompt as Administrator and run:

cd C:\doorhub
doorhub init

init makes hub.json and the host key and prints the key's fingerprint. Give it to member sysops so they can check it.

3. If Synchronet isn't in C:\sbbs:

doorhub set jsexec D:\sbbs\exec\jsexec.exe
doorhub set sbbs_ctrl D:\sbbs\ctrl

4. Name the hub, set the address members will use, and add games and members:

doorhub set hub_name "Example Door Hub"
doorhub set public_host hub.example.com
doorhub door add lord LORD "Legend of the Red Dragon"
doorhub bbs add EXB "The Example BBS"

See Games and Member BBSes.

5. Try it:

doorhub serve

Windows Firewall asks whether doorhub.exe may accept connections. Allow it on the networks your members connect from. Ctrl+C stops it.

From the Administrator Command Prompt, in C:\doorhub:

doorhub service install
doorhub service start

The service is Door Hub (DoorHub). It starts with Windows, runs as Local System, and restarts itself if it stops. Its log is C:\doorhub\doorhub.log. You can also start and stop it in services.msc.

doorhub service stop
doorhub service remove

The service remembers the folder it was installed from (it runs doorhub.exe -d C:\doorhub serve). If you move the folder, remove and install the service again.

• The hub makes Synchronet users with jsexec.exe. Local System can write to C:\sbbs by default. If Synchronet runs as another account and you have tightened permissions on its folders, set the Door Hub service to log on as that account (services.msc, Door Hub, Log On).
• Keep doorhub.exe, jsexec.exe and the Synchronet folders on a local drive.
• The admin commands work while the service runs. Run them from a Command Prompt in C:\doorhub (or with -d).
• Updating: doorhub service stop, replace doorhub.exe, doorhub service start.