I have an app using active_directory.py and the std module asyncore in a Windows Service. Works perfectly! That is, until I try to use py2exe to create a standalone (need to avoid installing the entire Python etc. on the target system).
When I try to start the installed Service, the system tells me it terminates prematurely and in the event log I find: The instance's SvcRun() method failed File "win32serviceutil.pyc", line 785, in SvcRun File "XXProxySvc.pyc", line 126, in SvcDoRun File "XXProxySvc.pyc", line 94, in setup File "D:\projects\XXProxy\DB.py", line 54, in loadFromAD File "active_directory.pyc", line 402, in search File "active_directory.pyc", line 398, in root File "active_directory.pyc", line 371, in AD File "active_directory.pyc", line 378, in _root File "win32com\client\__init__.pyc", line 73, in GetObject File "win32com\client\__init__.pyc", line 88, in Moniker pywintypes.com_error: (-2147221020, 'Invalid syntax', None, None) The offending line is: import active_directory as AD ... for item in AD.search ("objectCategory='Person'"): ... I.e. the call to AD.search() is the entry point to the problem. The setup.py is (pretty straight forward..): from distutils.core import setup import py2exe class Target: def __init__(self, **kw): self.__dict__.update(kw) # for the versioninfo resources self.version = "0.9.0" self.company_name = "My Company" self.copyright = "My Company (c)" self.name = "FilterProxy" ################################################################ # a NT service, modules is required myservice = Target( # used for the versioninfo resource description = "AD Driven Mail Filter", # what to build. For a service, the module name (not the # filename) must be specified! modules = ["ProxySvc"] ) excludes = [] setup(options = {"py2exe": {# create a compressed zip archive #"compressed": 1, #"optimize": 2, "excludes": excludes } }, service=[myservice] ) 'elp! Pleeeez! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list