Ah, excellent. Glad you got it figured out!
Regards,
Dan
Yuhong Liu wrote:> Hi Dan,
>
> I think I have figured out the problem. The issue is because of the
> setting of service type. So by default the service type is set as
> Service::WIN32_OWN_PROCESS | Service::INTERACTIVE_PROCESS. This means
> the service is configured to interact with the desktop, you cannot
> change the service to run under a domain user account. So I changed the
> code of configuring service by setting service type as WIN32_OWN_PROCESS.
>
> s.configure_service{ |s|
> s.start_name = "name of the account"
> s.password = "password"
> s.service_type = Service::WIN32_OWN_PROCESS
> }
>
> Then it works now.
>
> Thank you very much for the help.
>
> Kay
>
> > Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 20:33:30 -0600
> > From: djberg96 at gmail.com
> > To: serphakay at hotmail.com
> > Subject: Re: win32-service of win32utils
> >
> > Hi Kay,
> >
> > Just to be clear, you tried "domain_name\\user_name" and it
didn''t work?
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Dan
> >
> > Kay wrote:
> > > I''m writing some scripts to programmatically change the
user
> account of running a windows service. So I downloaded one of the windows
> utilities, win32-service, and wrote my scripts. However when I was
> trying to use the following scripts to change the name of the account of
> running a windows service
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > s.configure_service{ |s|
> > >
> > > s.start_name = "name of the account"
> > >
> > > s.password = "password" # Note that I used plain text
password
> > >
> > > }
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > I was always given some kinds of error messages, which varied
based
> on different formats of the account name being used. So
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > with start_name = "domain_name\user_name" (using \ for
escaping and
> have tried domain_name with either upper case or lower case), the
> message is "the parameter is incorrect".
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > with start_name = "domain_name\user_name" (have tried
domain_name
> with either upper case or lower case), the message is "the account
name
> is invalid or does not exist, or the password is invalid for the account
> name specified".
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > with start_name = "user_name at domain_name.com", the
message is " the
> parameter is incorrect".
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > with start_name = "user_name at
another_domain_name.com",
> (another_domain_name is a possible domain name for me), the message is
> "the specified domain either does not exist or could not be
contacted".
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > with start_name = "user_name", the message is
"the account name is
> invalid or does not exist, or the password is invalid for the account
> name specified".
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > So I''m writing to ask for your suggestions. BTW, do you
think it''s
> right to use password in plain text? Your help is very appreciated. The
> following is a full script I was using.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > base = File.basename(Dir.pwd)
> > >
> > > if base == "examples" || base =~ /win32-service/
> > >
> > > require "ftools"
> > >
> > > Dir.chdir("..") if base == "examples"
> > >
> > > Dir.mkdir("win32") unless
File.exists?("win32")
> > >
> > > File.copy("service.so","win32")
> > >
> > > $LOAD_PATH.unshift Dir.pwd
> > >
> > > end
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > require "win32/service"
> > >
> > > include Win32
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > s = Service.new("machine_name")
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > # Create a new service
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > if Service.exists?("foo")
> > >
> > > Service.delete("foo")
> > >
> > > end
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > s.create_service{ |s|
> > >
> > > s.service_name = "foo"
> > >
> > > s.binary_path_name =
> "C:\Autonomy\DocumentumFetchOld\DocumentumFetchOld.exe"
> > >
> > > s.display_name = "My Foo Service"
> > >
> > > }
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > # Configure a service that already exists
> > >
> > > s.configure_service{ |s|
> > >
> > > s.start_name = "start_name"
> > >
> > > s.password = "password"
> > >
> > > }
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > s.close
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Service.start("foo")
> > >
> > > Service.pause("foo")
> > >
> > > Service.resume("foo")
> > >
> > > Service.stop("foo")
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Service.delete("foo")
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Service.getdisplayname("Schedule") # "Task
Scheduler"
> > >
> > > Service.getservicename("ClipBook") #
"ClipSrv"
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > s = Service.status("ClipSrv")
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > # Enumerate over all services, inspecting each struct
> > >
> > > Service.services{ |s|
> > >
> > > p s
> > >
> > > puts
> > >
> > > }
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> > >
> >
>
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