_IEAttach: The requested action with this object has failed.

[Adrien]

My goal: Interact with an IE Window on a remote machine.

The local machine runs on linux. I have set up the following :

Linux -> SSH into windows machine (with a freeSSHd server) -> run psexec -i my_script (to get access to the desktop GUI)

This works if I only want to create new windows; they appear on the current user's desktop. But when I try to interact with an already existing IE window, I get this:

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AutoIt Error

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Line 373 (File "C:\Program Files\AutoIt3\Include\IE.au3"):

Local $o_ShellWindows = $o_Shell.Windows()

Local $o_ShellWindows = $o_Shell.Windows()^ ERROR

Error: The requested action with this object has failed.

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OK

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[DaleHohm]

The only COM code being executed are these two lines:

Local $o_Shell = ObjCreate("Shell.Application")
Local $o_ShellWindows = $o_Shell.Windows(); collection of all ShellWindows (IE and File Explorer)

You might want to use _IEErrorHandlerRegister() to see if you get a more detailed error.

Dale

Edited June 1, 2011 by DaleHohm