CreateProcessAsUserW always returns ERROR_INVALID_PARAMETER

From:
nwsgrp@gmail.com (user1976)
Newsgroups:
comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.nt.kernel-mode,comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32,microsoft.public.vc.mfc,microsoft.public.win32.programmer.kernel,microsoft.public.win2000.developer
Date:
Sun, 16 Jul 2006 04:16:13 GMT
Message-ID:
<6965710c.0411291436.5f45c8d9@posting.google.com>
Hi all, I have the following function that I execute from a service
running on
win2003 terminal server. This code creates a process in a client's
terminal session. I got this to work on win 2000 server. But when I
run in 2003 I always
keep getting ERROR_INVALID_PARAMETER from the function
CreateProcessAsUserW .
I verified the code and every thing seems right. I am trying to create
some thing as simple as c:\w2k3\notepad.exe and it still gives this
error. Any body with ideas please help me out

int createTSProcess(char* userName,char* domain,char* passwd,char*
commandStr,char* processDir,long sessionId){
    HANDLE hToken;
    PROCESS_INFORMATION pi;
    STARTUPINFOW si;
    LPVOID lpEnvironment = NULL;

    // initialize STARTUPINFO structure
    ZeroMemory(&si, sizeof(STARTUPINFO));
    si.cb = sizeof(STARTUPINFO);
    __try {
        // obtain an access token for the given user
        if (!LogonUser(userName,domain,passwd,LOGON32_LOGON_INTERACTIVE,LOGON32_PROVIDER_DEFAULT,&hToken))
{
            showError("LogonUser:");
            return FAILURE_AUTH_FAILURE;
        }

        if(EnableSecurityRights(SE_TCB_NAME, TRUE) != ERROR_SUCCESS) {
            showError("EnableSecurityRights:");
            return FAILURE_SETTOKEN_FAILURE;
        }
        //cout<<"Successfully enabled priveleges\n";

        DWORD dwSessionId = sessionId;
        if(!SetTokenInformation(hToken, TokenSessionId, &dwSessionId,
sizeof(DWORD))) {
            showError("SetTokenInformation:");
            return FAILURE_SETTOKEN_FAILURE;
        }
        //cout<<"Successfully set token\n";
        // Unicode usage due to CreateProcessAsUserA bug (Q257193)
        wchar_t wszCommand[4096];
        if(!MultiByteToWideChar(CP_ACP, MB_PRECOMPOSED, commandStr, -1,
wszCommand, 4096)) {
            showError("MultiByteToWideChar:");
            return FAILURE_CREATEPROCESS_FAILURE;
        } else {
            if( !CreateProcessAsUserW(
                hToken, // client's access token
                NULL, // file to execute
                wszCommand, // command line
                NULL, // pointer to process SECURITY_ATTRIBUTES
                NULL, // pointer to thread SECURITY_ATTRIBUTES
                TRUE, // handles are not inheritable
                NORMAL_PRIORITY_CLASS | CREATE_UNICODE_ENVIRONMENT, // creation
flags
                NULL, // pointer to new environment block
                NULL, // name of current directory
                &si, // pointer to STARTUPINFO structure
                &pi) // receives information about new process
                ) {
                    showError("CreateProcessAsUserW:");
                    cout<<"Create process failed\n";
                    return FAILURE_CREATEPROCESS_FAILURE;
            }
        }
    }
    __finally {
        // Close the opened handles.
        if (hToken) CloseHandle(hToken);
        if (pi.hProcess) CloseHandle(pi.hProcess);
        if (pi.hThread) CloseHandle(pi.hThread);
        if (lpEnvironment != NULL) DestroyEnvironmentBlock(lpEnvironment);
    }
    return pi.dwProcessId;
}

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