Article - CS93677

Windchill Publishing Worker fails to publish when the worker daemon is run as a service

Modified: 03-Dec-2025   


Applies To

  • Creo View Adapters 1.0 to 12.1
  • Windchill PDMLink 9.0 to 13.1
  • Windchill PDM Essentials 10.1 to 11.1
  • Windchill ProjectLink 9.0 to 13.1
  • Pro/INTRALINK 8.x + 9.0 to 11.2
  • PTC Arbortext Content Manager 9.0 to 11.1
  • Adapter for SolidWorks
  • Adapter for Unigraphics (NX)
  • Adapter for Autodesk Inventor
  • Adapter for Creo Element Direct Modeling/Drafting
  • Theorem CADverter for CATIA V5
  • Windchill Visualization Services (WVS)
  • Microsoft Windows

Description

  • Why does publishing fail when the CAD worker is started via the GS Worker Daemon or PTC Worker Daemon service and as the Windows System user?
  • CAD worker gets stuck EXECUTING state whenever service mode GS Worker Daemon is used
  • How to configure to start the GS Worker Daemon as a regular process and not as a service?
  • File Synchronization enabled Windchill CAD workers are unstable on the Windows 7 platform, when started from the GS Worker Daemon service
  • The Adapter for PDF based OFFICE worker is unstable when started as a Windows Service (CS16946)
  • Worker publish without error or issue when started in the foreground vs. when started via the GS Worker Daemon service
  • How to change the authenticated user in the GS Worker Daemon service on publisher machine
  • Solidworks Worker throws "Fails to Start" in Worker Agent Admin
  • How to configure Worker Daemon to start automatically in foreground when a worker machine is re-started?
    • If the worker is up & running and worker machine gets shutdown due to some issue so in that case it will start worker daemon automatically in foreground.
  • Many Scheduled Job are Failing to Publish. Showing Error: 
    Connection to worker has been closed.
  • Unable to finish configuring Theorem Worker to run as a service due to security policy rules blocking the service account for Worker daemon
    Service: WorkerDaemon
    Domain and account: ###
    This service account does not have the required user right "Log on as a service"
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