Using py2exe to wrap a service?

[Maria.Reinhammar at accalon.com]

I have an app using active_directory.py and the std module asyncore in
a Windows Service.
Works perfectly!
That is, until I try to use py2exe to create a standalone (need to
avoid installing the entire Python etc. on the target system).

When I try to start the installed Service, the system tells me it
terminates prematurely
and in the event log I find:
The instance's SvcRun() method failed
  File "win32serviceutil.pyc", line 785, in SvcRun
  File "XXProxySvc.pyc", line 126, in SvcDoRun
  File "XXProxySvc.pyc", line 94, in setup
  File "D:\projects\XXProxy\DB.py", line 54, in loadFromAD
  File "active_directory.pyc", line 402, in search
  File "active_directory.pyc", line 398, in root
  File "active_directory.pyc", line 371, in AD
  File "active_directory.pyc", line 378, in _root
  File "win32com\client\__init__.pyc", line 73, in GetObject
  File "win32com\client\__init__.pyc", line 88, in Moniker
pywintypes.com_error: (-2147221020, 'Invalid syntax', None, None)

The offending line is:
import active_directory as AD
...
for item in AD.search ("objectCategory='Person'"):
...

I.e. the call to AD.search() is the entry point to the problem.

The setup.py is (pretty straight forward..):
from distutils.core import setup
import py2exe

class Target:
    def __init__(self, **kw):
        self.__dict__.update(kw)
        # for the versioninfo resources
        self.version = "0.9.0"
        self.company_name = "My Company"
        self.copyright = "My Company (c)"
        self.name = "FilterProxy"

################################################################
# a NT service, modules is required
myservice = Target(
    # used for the versioninfo resource
    description = "AD Driven Mail Filter",
    # what to build.  For a service, the module name (not the
    # filename) must be specified!
    modules = ["ProxySvc"]
    )

excludes = []
setup(options = {"py2exe": {# create a compressed zip archive
                            #"compressed": 1,
                            #"optimize": 2,
                            "excludes": excludes
                            }
                 },
      service=[myservice]
      )

'elp! Pleeeez!