[Newbie] Trying to run MSWord from Cygwin

[Jim Drash]

By the way, there are much easier ways to convert MS Word Docs to pdfs.

On 3/3/06, P.P.Hughes <iss05e@bangor.ac.uk> wrote:
> 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.
>
> Regards,
> Paul
>
>
> 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.
> >
> >
> >
>
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