X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <44086430.5050709@cygwin.com> Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2006 10:43:44 -0500 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051223 Fedora/1.5-0.2.fc4.remi Thunderbird/1.5 Mnenhy/0.7.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: [Newbie] Trying to run MSWord from Cygwin References: <4406EBCE DOT 3030304 AT bangor DOT ac DOT uk> <440796F9 DOT 3050307 AT cygwin DOT com> <44083B2A DOT 10701 AT bangor DOT ac DOT uk> In-Reply-To: <44083B2A.10701@bangor.ac.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com 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. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- 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/