user and secirity context with windows 2000 printer driver

Hans-Peter Hofreiter · External Since: Mar 16, 2006 Posts: 1

I am developing a windows 2000 based print monitor for a fax software.
Therefore the monitor has to start a dialog for entering the destination
number. To start the dialog program the monitor uses
OpenTreadToken(), DuplicateTokenEx() and finally CreateProcessAsUser()
to start the exe.
All is going fine, the resulting process is running with the actual
username (can be validated in the task manager). But if this program is
calling SHGetSpecialFolderLocation() to examine CSIDL_LOCAL_APPDATA,
the resulting path is (in german windows)
C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\localservice\.....
and not the expected
C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\actual username\.....

Where is the mistake?

Regards, Hans-Peter

pimarc · Joined: Oct 13, 2007 Posts: 1

Hello,

I know your item as been posted a long time ago but I have the same issue here.
I'm writting a print monitor that should do some work and then run the internet explorer. The spooler impersonates the user that sends the print job but seems to not load its profile so the profile stays to system one. Trying to load the user profile fails (LoadUserProfile) because the user as not enough rights to run this function.

Did you finally find a solution to your problem ?