InstallUtil

[Colin Basterfield]

Hi,

Not sure if this is the right place for this question, but I'll ask
anyway...

I have written a windows service to poll a database and collect some
information and write it to an XML file for local retrieval, anyways when I
do

InstallUtil OnlinePolling.exe it comes up with a login screen and if I put
in what I think is correct, though I'm not sure which username and password
it wants here, it gives me the following log file:

<<Running a transacted installation.

Beginning the Install phase of the installation.
See the contents of the log file for the c:\vsnet
dev\onlinepollingservice\bin\debug\onlinepollingservice.exe assembly's
progress.
The file is located at c:\vsnet
dev\onlinepollingservice\bin\debug\onlinepollingservice.InstallLog.

An exception occurred during the Install phase.
System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception: No mapping between account names and
security IDs was done

The Rollback phase of the installation is beginning.
See the contents of the log file for the c:\vsnet
dev\onlinepollingservice\bin\debug\onlinepollingservice.exe assembly's
progress.
The file is located at c:\vsnet
dev\onlinepollingservice\bin\debug\onlinepollingservice.InstallLog.

The Rollback phase completed successfully.

The transacted install has completed.>>

Any ideas or places to look for help on this?

Many thanks
Colin

 

[Miha Markic]

Hi Colin,

How did you set Account, User and Password class of your
ServiceProcessInstaller component?
I think that you've specified an invalid account.

 

[Colin Basterfield]

Hi,

hmmm...I don't think I did now you mention it. I am new at this part of
dotNet, well pretty new at most of it, especially the bits I need to know
now!

Where does one set these up then?

Many thanks
Colin

 

[Miha Markic]

Hi Colin,

You might check the
Adding Installers to your Service Application
..net help topic.
Basically you'll have to set some properties of ServiceProcessInstaller
component (Account, Username, Password).

 

[Colin Basterfield]

Hi Miha,

Well I've sorted it, I set the account to Local System, and bingo! house!

Many thanks
Colin