user rights and python com servers

[Mark Hammond]

On 15/04/2010 6:05 PM, sniffer wrote:
> hi all,
> i am facing a peculiar problem with a python com server i've developed
> the com server runs fine in winxp  standalone systems but if the
> system is part of a domain then until the logged in user is given
> power user rights i am unable to register the dll using regsvr32 , a
> similar problem i face on vista system here unless and untill the app
> utilising the dll is run with admin privelleges the dll does not get
> registered and does not function as a result.

This is a "feature" of Vista and later - you must have elevated 
permissions to write to the place in the registry where "global" COM 
objects are stored.  By default, the standard win32com registration code 
will attempt to elevate and register if necessary.

Note that it is also possible in theory to register COM objects just for 
a single user, but while win32com doesn't support that directly it 
shouldn't be hard to support this with a few changes to 
win32com\server\register.py

HTH,

Mark