Win98 - exceptions.IOError: (13, 'Permission denied')

[Robert Dollinger]

Ok, I have solved the problem.
You have to set to something different than "Local System account" under 
properties of the service.

bye
Robert

Robert Dollinger schrieb:
> Hi to everyone,
> 
> I have a Service, that runs on a WinXP machine. The service read a file 
> on a Win98 machine and write the content in a file on the WinXP machine.
> After tree times I get the error message exceptions.IOError: (13, 
> 'Permission denied').
> 
> The following things I have already tested:
> 
> - The file on Win98 machine could be deleted, so the file is closed 
> correctly.
> - Stop an restart the service on WinXP, will have no effect
> - Reboot the Win98 machine solve the problem for three times. So I have 
> the same issue explained above.
> - I have changed the intervall from 5 sec to 1 minute. After ther first 
> time I get the error message.
> - Using a Win2000 or WINXP machine instead of the Win98 machine. That 
> works. But unfortunatly the PC to access is a Win98 and I have no 
> influence to decide for upgrade.
> 
> I can't figure out, what's the problem.
> 
> This is the code to simulate my actual problem:
> 
> # -*- coding: iso-8859-1 -*-
> 
> import win32serviceutil
> import win32service
> import win32event
> import pywintypes
> import win32file
> import win32pipe
> import win32api
> import win32con
> import thread
> import ntsecuritycon
> import os
> import sys
> 
> class MyService(win32serviceutil.ServiceFramework):
>      """NT Service."""
> 
>      _svc_name_ = "TCTest"
>      _svc_display_name_ = "TCTest"
> 
>      def __init__(self, args):
>          win32serviceutil.ServiceFramework.__init__(self, args)
>          self.stop_event = win32event.CreateEvent(None, 0, 0, None)
>          self.overlapped = pywintypes.OVERLAPPED()
>          self.overlapped.hEvent = win32event.CreateEvent(None,0,0,None)
>          self.thread_handles = []
> 
>      def SvcDoRun(self):
>          import servicemanager
> 
>          servicemanager.LogMsg(
>                  servicemanager.EVENTLOG_INFORMATION_TYPE,
>                  servicemanager.PYS_SERVICE_STARTED,
>                  (self._svc_name_, '')
>                  )
> 
>          while 1:
>              datei = open(r'\\ipcwin98\test\test.txt', 'r')
>              log = open(r'c:\log.txt', 'a')
>              log.write(datei.read())
>              datei.close()
>              log.close()
> 
>              if win32event.WaitForSingleObject(self.stop_event, 5000) == 
> win32event.WAIT_OBJECT_0:
>                  break
> 
>          servicemanager.LogMsg(
>          servicemanager.EVENTLOG_INFORMATION_TYPE,
>          servicemanager.PYS_SERVICE_STOPPED,
>          (self._svc_name_, '')
>          )
> 
>      def SvcStop(self):
>          self.ReportServiceStatus(win32service.SERVICE_STOP_PENDING)
>          win32event.SetEvent(self.stop_event)
> 
> if __name__ == '__main__':
>      win32serviceutil.HandleCommandLine(MyService)
> 
> 
> Thanks in advanced for your help.
> bye
> Robert
>