[python-win32] Running GUI apps from a python/IIS web application

[Vernon Cole]

There is a registry hack to make a Windows box auto log in when it boots
up.  If you cannot find an example, get back to me and I will get a sample
from a co-worker at a former employer.  We had several dozen machines there
which were actually servers, but the software was written for a GUI desktop.
An auto-login with a Python startup script make them work automatically.
Something like that may do the trick for your application.
Vernon

On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 8:02 PM, Roberto Aguilar <roberto.c.aguilar at gmail.com
> wrote:

> On Dec 1, 2010, at 6:43 PM, Randy Syring wrote:
> > On 12/01/2010 08:28 PM, Tim Roberts wrote:
> >> Randy Syring wrote:
> >>> It seems likely to me that you can not run a GUI program under a
> >>> non-interactive service like IIS.  But, I am not 100% sure on this so I
> >>> was hoping that this list might be able to shed some light on this
> topic.
> >> Your analysis is quite correct.
> > Thank you for the confirmation.
> >> It is possible, through painful and creative use of CreateProcessAsUser,
> >> to create a process as the user that is running on the primary visible
> >> desktop.  Here's more information, although I don't really think it
> >> solves your problem:
> >>
> >> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms683502.aspx
> >>
> > Good to know, but you are correct that it doesn't solve the problem.
>  This program needs to work even when no users are logged into the server,
> as that will be the case 99% of the time.
>
> My guess is that you do not have access to the source code of the .exe in
> order to yank out the dialog and recompile, correct?
>
> We had a similar issue at work and ended up using Ollydbg [1] to find out
> where the msgbox call was being made within the executable.  Once located,
> the msgbox call and associated instructions were replaced with noop calls.
>
> Hacky?  Absolutely.  Did it work?  Yep.
>
> Hope this helps,
> -Roberto.
>
> [1] http://www.ollydbg.de/
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