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Subject: | RE: [Newbie] Trying to run MSWord from Cygwin |
Date: | Fri, 3 Mar 2006 08:01:28 +0100 |
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Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote on Friday, March 03, 2006 2:08 AM: > P.P.Hughes wrote: >> Hello, >> >> This is probably a silly question to most you, but here goes: >> >> I'm opening a ssh connection from a Linux box to our Windows Server >> 2003 which then initiates a Cygwin terminal. I then try and run a >> vbs script that opens Word to convert documents from Word to >> PostScript. >> >> In my vbs script, as soon as it reaches the following line: >> >> Set objWord = CreateObject("Word.Application") >> >> I receive the following error: >> >> C:\cygwin\home\iss05e\autoprint.vbs(6, 1) Microsoft VBScript runtime >> error: Permission denied: 'CreateObject' >> >> The user 'iss05e' has Administrative privileges on the Windows >> machine. >> >> The script works fine if I log into the machine direct and run it >> through the command prompt using "cscript autoprint.vbs". >> >> Is there some permissions setting I need to change to allow Cygwin to >> run GUI applications? > > If you need to interact with the desktop, you need to enable the > option on the service to allow this. Either do so from the Windows > Control Panel->Administrator Tools->Services->RMB->Properties->Log On > facility or uninstall the service and reinstall it with cygrunsrv and > add the "-i" flag (or add this to the appropriate line in > /bin/ssh-host-config and rerun this script). > > Also, be sure you log in with password authentication. Pub-key > may also cause the permission denied message you got. But don't expect Word popping up on your Linux box ... it is not an X app ;-) - Jörg -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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