This is most likely a permissions/account problem. What user does your (Windows) ssh server run as?

Does this user have a desktop and is it logged in? Without a desktop (on which to launch and display IE), nothing will work.

Does this user have permissions to launch IE? You can check that by logging in via ssh and manually launching iexplore.exe.

Does this user have permissions to use OLE objects? This is an integral point of Windows, but I've seen some systems (mis)configured to disallow even DCOM and local COM.

More error messages and the actual code might also help us to help you, but if the script works when used directly but doesn't when launched through ssh, all fingers point to ssh as the culprit.

In reply to Re: Win32::IE::Mechanize from unix???? by Corion
in thread Win32::IE::Mechanize from unix???? by monkster

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