finally got windows 7 32 and 64 bit machines set up
this is a UAC problem
(UAC is the feature that takes control of the display
and prompts "do you really want to run this program?")
even though your account has admin privs, with UAC on,
they are not active until you hit and click ok at the UAC prompt
I don't know all of the details, but I believe UAC only
works when another executable runs after the UAC prompt
i.e., UAC will not elevate the privs of an already executing process
in this sense its like unix setuid, except with a prompt
now the uwin control panel applet "uwin.cpl" is a single process
you can run it from the command line by
control uwin.cpl
the "master" tab requires admin privs, but the .cpl does not
trigger the UAC dialog because it is an old style single process
for uwin-VI (vista) and uwin-W7 (windows 7) uwin-base installs two desktop ksh
icons
"ksh" non-priv ksh
"ksh-admin" UAC enabled ksh (think sudo with UAC prompt added)
click the ksh-admin icon, ok the UAC dialog, and you get a ksh
running with admin privs activated -- and commands executed
will bypass the UAC dialog because you are already running with the UAC privs
from this ksh run the uwin control panel applet and the master tab will work
control uwin.cpl
On Wed, 22 Sep 2010 12:22:41 -0700 Mike Thurston wrote:
> I had previously posted the following on 9-14-10 but have heard nothing
> from the uwin-users mail list. Does anyone else have this problem?
> On Windows 7 I am getting an error when selecting UWIN from the Control
> Panel. The UWIN Configuration Manager windows opens but when I select
> Master a window opens that says
> uwin_ms
> Error: OpenSCManager failed
> My account is an administrator account. How can I open the Master tab
> without an error.
> output from uname -a
> $ uname -a
> UWIN-W7 Win7pc 4.5/6.1 2010-06-08 i1586 i1586 32/32 UWIN
> Win7pc:/home/mthurst
> $
> Thanks
> Mike
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