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Re: shutdown workstation with xap Watcher


  • Subject: Re: shutdown workstation with xap Watcher
  • From: "glhopital" <glhopital@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 09:06:15 -0000

Hello,
it runs as a service, logged with administrator account.

--- In xap_automation@xxxxxxx, James Traynor <james@...> wrote:
>
> I can't say it's a feature i've used recently but it did work on
earlier
> XPs . I wonder if it is a security thing related to the user account
> that Watcher runs under. Is it running as a  service and if so what
user
> account? If running as an app is the logged on user an administrator?
>
> Thanks
>
> James
> glhopital wrote:
> > I meet a strange behavior of watcher when I try to use it to
shutdown
> > or reboot the machine : the service kills himself.
> > It works fine when I fire a xap message to lock the workstation -
but
> > when I send a pc.control to shutdown, the service seems to stop
running.
> > I met this on multiple machines wich runs under windows xp sp2.
Does
> > anybody has the same behavior ?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Yahoo! Groups Links
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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