Re: [Condor-users] access denied when running vbscript jobs withcscript.exe

[Michael Rusch <mcrusch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Figured it out.  In case anybody is interested:

Needed to do step #5 from Microsoft KB221081 on the execute nodes:
Create registry keys:
HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\Microsoft\Windows Scripting Host
HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\Microsoft\Windows Scripting Host\Settings
Create registry entries in the Settings key just created:
BatchMode: REG_DWORD: 0
DisplayLogo: REG_DWORD: 0
Timeout: REG_DWORD: 0

That was the key thing.  Two other pitfalls:

1. I couldn't specify the vbscript as the executable.  It had to be a
parameter to cscript.exe

2. Needed the path to cscript.exe.  To do this, I created a wrapper batch
script:
SET PATH=%PATH%;%SYSTEMROOT%\SYSTEM32
cscript %*
I didn't just use the Environment option in the submit file because the
location of cscript is relative to SYSTEMROOT which isn't available to
condor as it sets up the environment.  Setting it in the batch script
worked.

Hope this helps somebody.

Michael.

-----Original Message-----
From: condor-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:condor-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Michael Rusch
Sent: Monday, October 23, 2006 2:13 PM
To: condor-users@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [Condor-users] access denied when running vbscript jobs
withcscript.exe

I?m trying to submit vbscript jobs from a linux machine to a pool of XP
machines.  To simplify the test case, I?m using the requirements expression
to send the job to a single machine every time.  As an executable, I?m using
C:\windows\system32\cscript.exe, and I?m passing the vbscript as an input
file and as an argument to cscript.exe.  I?m seeing the following returned
from stdout:
 
CScript Error: Loading your settings failed. (Access is denied. )
 
>From what I can tell from web searches, this error seems to indicate that
the user does not have read permission to either of a couple of registry
keys (one under HKEY_MACHINE and one under HKEY_USERS).  However, ?Everyone?
has read permission on HKEY_MACHINE and HKEY_USERS, and I see nothing in any
of the intermediate keys that denies any permissions to any user.  I?ve
tried adding read permission on these keys explicitly to condor-reuse-vm1,
and that did not help.
 
Has anybody successfully run jobs that use cscript.exe?  Any ideas?
 
Michael.