Starting Terminal Service Applications

[pmerz]

I have a problem running an application under a terminal
service session.

Logged in as a normal user (with just about any set of
administrator privileges applied so far) I am unable to
start the application. The program is a batch file and
will start and run the first application in the batch file,
however, I can see the second application begin - in task
manager on the console session - then quickly stop. The
remote session only sees the batch file process then 20-30
seconds or so later the cursor becomes the hour glass and
then becomes normal again.

I can login as administrator remotely and run the
application fine, I can also run the application
(executable, not the batch file) fine when logged in as
normal user and choose "run as" option.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated

 

[Vera Noest [MVP]]

As with any permission problem, I would download FileMon and
RegMon from http://www.sysinternals.com/. Run them as
administrator, start a TS session as a normal user and try to run
the application.

FileMon and RegMon will show you all "access denied" errors
that occur, so that you can give your users the necessary
permissions on a file-to file or Registry subkey basis.