Problem with CFEXECUTE (Urgent!)

[Guest]

Hi,

I've been using CFEXECUTE to call an exe file. This exe file is supposed to do 2 things.

1. Update an Excel Sheet using values from the database.
2. Shutdown all remote pc's

The shutdown of the remote pc's is actually done in a bat file using the command
shutdown -s -m \\remote_pc_name_1 -t 5
shutdown -s -m \\remote_pc_name_2 -t 5
shutdown -s -m \\remote_pc_name_3 -t 5
shutdown -s -m \\remote_pc_name_4 -t 5

This shutdown command works perfect, no doubt about it! I've tested it on standalone, i.e. I've run the bat file and the remote pc's shutdown.

Now this bat file (called shutdown.bat) is included in a small VB program (called update_shutdown.exe) using the following command

Shell(C:\shutdown.bat)

update_shutdown.exe also contains commands to update the required Excel sheet on the server.

The exe file update_shutdown.exe works perfect on its own. The Excel sheet is updated and the remote pc's are shutdown.

Now, when I use the tag CFEXECUTE to call the exe file, only the update works, the remote pc's DO NOT SHUTDOWN AS THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO!!!

The syntax is very simple <cfexecute name="C:\update_shutdown.exe">

Can somebody please explain to me what the problem might be?

In simple english, why is it that when I run the exe (by double-clicking on it obviously!) on standalone, both the Excel sheet is updated and the remote pc's are shutdown, but when I call the exe via CF, it's as if it's preventing the exe to run the bat file???

Your help will be greatly appreciated as this is a very important issue.

Thanks and regards,
Yogesh Mahadnac

[ksmith]

The pc shutdown probably requires CFMX to be run as a domain user with permissions to shutdown the remote PC. See technote: www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=tn_17279.

You can quickly test this by stopping the cf application server service. Then start it from the commandline by running \cfusionmx\bin\cfstart. Test you cfexecute template again. If it works, the issue is as I described. Run the cfservice using a user with the needed permissions. Services run as local system by default. Local system will not have permissions on other machines.

[Guest]

Hi ksmith,

Thanks for your reply.

I'll give it a try and post any outcome that may be helpful to others as well.

Regards,
Yogesh Mahadnac