koobas.hobune.stream
Asset Server "Could Not Start Server"
Hi, when trying to launch our Asset server we get the following error: "Could Not Start Server, Cannot start service Unity Asset server on computer".
After researching the problem I came across this video (link) that explained how the problem could be solved. Due to the OS (Home) I cannot access the local users and group on the server computer. I have also tried the solution mention in the comments of the videos but with little results.
I know that the Asset server is legacy tech, but as we did not have any real reason to change from it we just continued to use it... well until now.
What can I do to save the project?
This is coming from someone who haven't used the asset server for a long long time so there could be more elegant solutions from other users.
Have you made any backups or can you possibly try to make a backup at this point? My gut feeling that this won't be possible since it most likely have to access the server to make the backup in the first place. But if you can, you could try to migrate your asset server to a different computer and host it there.
What else you can do is to go on Microsoft forums or answers or http://superuser.com/ and ask if there is any equivalent way of performing the operation without the user interface shown in the video. If I understood your dilemma correctly, you don't have access to that UI. You might find some command line tools that you can use to perform the same action. Perhaps you get lucky and someone on these forums know how to do it too, but MS Win forums should have lots of people specialized in OS features and tricks.
Once you've rescued your project, consider moving to a different version control system such as Git, Svn, Perforce, etc.
