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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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University of Wales, Bangor
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