[Newbie] Trying to run MSWord from Cygwin

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

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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