[THIN] Re: Adobe Distiller on Citrix
- From: "Jan Broucinek" <tinybeetle@xxxxxxxx>
- To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 10:52:25 -0500
I gave up and installed CutePDF. It installed with no complaints and
works flawlessly. And it is free!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Cook" <mc@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 9:05 AM
Subject: [THIN] Re: Adobe Distiller on Citrix
> Presumably you need this because your servers reboot each night ?
>
> AFAIK the issue will also be down to desktop object security type
stuff
> within NT itself, in otherword's the acrotray.exe app will need to
be
> actually on the console desktop, not just running in session 0 !?
Hope that
> makes sense ???
>
> Therefore, if in a nightly reboot environment you need to somehow
get the
> console logged on to run acrotray.exe via the startup folder !
Other than
> autologon which isn't the best (or secure) solution I'm stumped.
Hope this
> has given you or someone else some idea's - using autologon would
work a
> treat but would cause an unsecured console.
>
> Thinking aloud, if you do use autologon you could create a script to
start
> acrotray.exe and then run the following as the last line of code
>
> Rundll32 user32.dll LockWorkStation
>
> The server should autologon, run the script, start acrotray.exe and
the lock
> itself. You could get even cleverer and script in some code to
remove the
> autologon entries from the registry once the server has restarted
and again,
> script the generation of these entries in your shutdown script...
>
> Did any of this make any sense ??? Shall I stop rambling now ???
>
> Seriously, hope the above gives you a few ideas and feel free to
shoot this
> down in flames or comment any way you see fit :-)
>
> Mark
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jon D [mailto:rekcahpmip@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 25 January 2005 13:26
> To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [THIN] Adobe Distiller on Citrix
>
> I have Adobe Acrobat 5.0 on citrix 3.0 win2k3, and I've been trying
to
> get the distiller to work for a few days now so my users can print
to
> pdf.
>
> I've read the post here where they said to schedule acrotray.exe to
> run at the console under the system account.
> http://thethin.net/archive3.cfm?id=155430
>
> What I've noticed is the following:
> - If I go to the console on the server, and manually run
acrotray.exe,
> everyone on citrix can print to pdf fine. The problem is, I would
have
> to do this every morning, and thats no good.
> - If I turn acrotray.exe into a service via microsofts instsrv.exe
> tool, the acrotray.exe process runs when I start the service, but
> noone can print to pdf. When they print, it goes to the distiller
cue,
> and errors out.
> I've tried running this service as system, local admin, and domain
> admin, and it doesnt seem to make a difference.
>
> So anyway....
> Has anyone gotten this to work? Any other things to try?
> One thing I was thinking is to call the acrotray.exe from peoples
> loginscript, and see if that works.
>
>
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Jon
>
>
>
>
>
>
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