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completeintern
Occasional Contributor
10 years ago

How to avoid having TE running as admin on slave machines?

Hi,

 

I've got a problem with distributed testing. On the master machine, TE is not running as admin.

On slave machines, I have set TE not to run as admin ( TestExecute.exe properties > uncheck Run as admin)

 

Still, when I run my project from master, the TE instance on slave machines is running as admin which is causing issues.

 

If I start TE on a slave machine manually though, it does not run as admin.

Am I missing something?

 

Thanks

3 Replies

  • m_essaid's avatar
    m_essaid
    Valued Contributor

    Hi,

     

    I noticed that when I launch TE automaticaly from windows task manager with the "run with high privileges" or something like that in english, well, it launches it as admin.

    I needed to have it as an admin to change system date.

    How do you launch TE ?

    • completeintern's avatar
      completeintern
      Occasional Contributor

      Hi m_essaid,

       

      I launch it either via script or by just clicking on the desktop icon, each time it is not launched as admin on the master machine, which is normal.

      However the slave instances of TE are launched as admin and I really don't understand why :/ I don't seem to have much control over it, except making sure that TestExecute.exe within C:\Program File\Smartbear\TestExecute\bin\ does not have 'Start as administrator' checked

       

      edit: to be more clear, this step is actually not working:

      http://support.smartbear.com/viewarticle/68479/#ID0EYCAC

       

      In spite of doing this, TE is still running as admin on slave machines.

      • completeintern's avatar
        completeintern
        Occasional Contributor

        Hello, this is still an issue for me.

         

        UAC is enabled on slave machines, yet TE still manages to be launched as admin when ran from Master without any UAC prompt.