Question about creating a service

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When creating a service, I am trying to create the service with a username
and password.

I cannot get that to work. Without a username and password it works every
time.

The user account exists prior to service creation.

What could I be doing wrong?

Donald Ridley

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Nevermind... I did not have the username formatted properly.

Has to be: ".\username" not just "username."

Cool!

Thanks!

Don

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Okay, got the service installing but not starting because the user does not
have "log on as service rights..."

Don

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Don,

> Okay, got the service installing but not starting because the user does
> not have "log on as service rights..."

I think the following is an interesting reading:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315276

The "ntrights.exe" file will set a policy for the "SERVICE_USER" user which
will allow him to log on as a service:

ntrights.exe -u SERVICE_USER +r SeServiceLogonRight

If you want to revoke this privilege (e.g. in your custom uninstall script),
you can use:

ntrights.exe -u SERVICE_USER -r SeServiceLogonRight

Friedrich

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Hey Friedrich....

Will not work on 64bit systems... :-(

Don

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>
> Will not work on 64bit systems... :-(
>

Yes, that's correct. The Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit Tools are not
supported on 64-bit platforms.

Friedrich