Slide, There is a C:\Windows\system32\config\systemprofile\Desktop folder already in place. (I forgot to mention this is running on Win XP).
Johannes, I don't have system access to this machine, and because of red-tape, it took some convincing to have Jenkins installed in the first place. The admins here are not Jenkins users, so they are unable to answer any questions or provide much support. I appreciate the help, but I think for know, I'll stick with the solution I have, which is to run a separate job to kill PowerPoint. On Thursday, March 7, 2013 8:47:41 AM UTC-5, slide wrote: > > Actually, yes, I ran into an issue with this, I had to do something in the > user directory for something I was running with Excel to work properly. > This article [1] shows the location of the user directory for the NT > Authority\SYSTEM user. The issue was that the Desktop directory was missing > for that user, so you also need to do what "DebarchanS" says in [2]. My > guess is that PowerPoint needs something similar. > > slide > > 1 - > http://serverfault.com/questions/9325/where-can-i-find-data-stored-by-a-windows-service-running-as-local-system-accou > 2 - > http://social.technet.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/officesetupdeploylegacy/thread/334c9f30-4e27-4904-9e71-abfc65975e23 > > > On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 3:26 AM, Johannes Wienke < > [email protected] <javascript:>> wrote: > >> On 03/07/2013 12:06 AM, jo2dad wrote: >> > I'm running Jenkins as a service. There is a Jenkins slave running on >> the >> > Window box I'm using. I'm not sure how to tell whether the service has >> > permission to interact with the desktop. >> > >> > The rest of the script runs fine (MATLAB make its figures, PowerPoint >> > opens, does its thing and saves the results), it's just when it gets to >> the >> > end and tries to close PowerPoint when things go wrong. >> > >> > When I look at processes using Task Manager, MATLAB, PowerPoint and >> Jenkins >> > show up as NT Authority\SYSTEM. I assumed this meant that everything >> was >> > running as System user and should have all necessary permissions. >> >> IIRC there are some restrictions whata system user is allowed to do. >> E.g. in one of our projects we tried to get the user directory, which >> fails for the system services. Maybe powerpoint hits something similar. >> Can you give it a try and let the slave for once run as a usual windows >> user? >> >> Cheers, >> Johannes >> >> >> > > > -- > Website: http://earl-of-code.com > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jenkins Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
