On Mar 25, 2013, at 6:03 AM, André Warnier wrote:
Howard W. Smith, Jr. wrote:
On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 7:14 PM, Howard W. Smith, Jr. <
smithh032...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Jeffrey,
Yes, I now get it. Thanks for the lesson on Windows Networking (I
thought
I knew well) and thanks to Andre as well.
You also said that if all I wanted to do was make a list of mapping
appear in an html page (without actually using them
in your application), you can just fake it as previously
discussed. I
think I missed that part.
Thanks
Pat
Glad you understand now. I was about to provide a response similar
to
Andre's previous response. This all reminds me of a similar
situation
within my TomEE/Tomcat7 web app.
On my development server (Windows 2008 server 64-bit), I am 'always'
logged in and coding/etc, which means I always test the web app via
NetBeans (which provide the infamous 'console' that is mentioned
throughout
this thread). I developed this piece of code that uses
JODConverter to call
OpenOffice.org at/via port 2002, and this allows my web app to
convert
files to PDF after enduser uploads certain documents (Word docs,
excel,
etc...). So, that all works on my development server. Why? because
I am
logged in everytime while testing and the app is 'never' running
as a
Windows 'service' on my development server.
So, i deploy my web app to target/production server (Windows 2003
Server
and/or Windows Server 2008). For many months now, I have wondered
'why' the
code will not work on the 'production' server but it runs/works
'everytime'
on my development server. Finally, recently (after many months of
research
and/or multiple attempts of trying to debug/resolve the problem),
I either
read somewhere or finally realized that the code will 'not' work
because my
web app is running as a service, and for whatever reason (of
course a
'Windows' reason), the code will 'not' work while running as a
service.
So, I am left to coding another implementation to convert files
after
upload, use another library, and ditch the JODConverter/
OpenOffice.org
approach.
Forgot to mention... since OpenOffice.org can be installed in the
Startup
folder, i was assuming that it would run as a service on production
server,
and/but I forgot that Startup folder just automatically starts the
app
immediately when/after you login. OpenOffice.org is 'not' running
as a
service, and since my web app is running as a service (in a different
'environment'), my web app was unable to access OpenOffice.org,
because
clearly/definitely/evidently, it was not/never running as a
'service'..
which means it was never available to my web app. :(
And, to get back more OT, that may be the fundamental difference
with my succesful usage of the same : in my case, it is my service
program which launches the background OpenOffice instance, which
most probably means that it too is running in the same service
context a the main service program.
(Which brings us back to the same context as this thread).
Update: If I'm login interactively (meaning machine boots and I login
and get my desktop) and that interactive account matches the service
login account
then "net use" from within the service does return all mapped drives.
I'm not sure if that is by design or is something I can hang my hat on
but it is the case
with Windows 7 SP1.
Thanks again
Pat
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