[wpkg-users] AutoIT in login scripts [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

[Michael Chinn]

Try calling the scripts with a command to interact with the desktop. 
Wpkg when run as a service it cannot interact with the desktop. 
psexec.exe provides a -i option to interact with the remote desktop 
(www.sysinternals.com <http://www.sysinternals.com>), this may solve the 
problem.

Ironically if you run wpkg as a services under Local System with 
'interact with desktop' checked the it does just that, only problem is 
now you dont have credentials too access the network. Often face a 
similar problem with command line only programs the dont have a silent 
option, however you can get around this by piping the output to null 
(ie: command.exe "install stuff"* >null)*

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Michael Chinn
User Support Officer - Information Technology

Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority
PO Box 1379
TOWNSVILLE, QLD 4810

Ph 07 47500874 Fax 07 4772 6093
michaelc at gbrmpa.gov.au 

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Michael Mills wrote, On 15/06/2007 00:17:
> I use AutoIT to automate application installations during login.  I only use this for major package installation.
>  
> It appears that some scripts that work when run directly (whether from a UNC path or a mapped drive) do not work when called from WPKG.
>  
> I have attempted using both the mapped drive and UNC approach in WPKG with the same result, the AutoIT script runs, but when it launches the program using the RUN command inside AutoIT, the script fails claiming that it can't find the file to work on.  I have noticed that these tend to be scripts written to be in a subdirectory and are calling a parent directory [ run ("../runme.exe") ].  The statement is that it can't find the application to run.
>  
> Again, when I run it manually it runs without problems.  I am confused as to figure out how to troubleshoot this as WPKG is obviously executing the script.
>  
> Thanks for any help
> Michael

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