Mail Archives: cygwin/2006/03/03/11:23:41
I tried OpenOffice running a macro, but this didn't faithfully reproduce
formatting in a complex document. I need to run an automated job to
print out Job Applications, so the postscript file needs to be perfect.
Regards,
Paul
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
> P.P.Hughes wrote:
>> Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
>>> 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.
>>>
> > Hi Larry,
> >
> > Thanks for taking the time to look at this.
> >
> > When I look at the Log On settings for this service, it's set to log in
> > as .\sshd_server user, not the Local System Account, therefore the
> > "Allow Service to Interact with desktop" option is not available.
> >
> > I'm told that this was recommended by the cygwin installation
> instructions.
> >
>
>
> True for W2K3. I don't have this O/S and haven't set up my sshd to work
> with
> another user. It's likely just a permissions thing, though I can't make
> any
> recommendations for changes to make, at least at the moment. As pointed
> out,
> there are other ways to do doc->pdf conversion on Linux. If you prefer to
> do it from a doc writer app, I suggest OpenOffice.
>
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Paul Hughes
Analyst / Programmer,
University of Wales, Bangor
Adeilad Deiniol, Deiniol Road, Bangor, Gwynedd, LL57 2UX
Tel: 01248 383894
Fax: 0870 135 7057
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