Service Installation

[Chad Crowder]

I wrote a small windows service, and created a setup project for it.
Everything worked fine on my development system, but when I tried to run the
"release" installer on a remote system, I received the error below. The
error seems to reference an account, but I can't find where to add account
info in the .net setup project.

Any assistance would be appreciated.

- Chad


Event Type: Error
Event Source: MsiInstaller
Event Category: None
Event ID: 11001
Date: 3/26/2004
Time: 2:49:34 PM
User: N/A
Computer: ATLWC
Description:
The description for Event ID ( 11001 ) in Source ( MsiInstaller ) cannot be
found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry information or
message DLL files to display messages from a remote computer. The following
information is part of the event: Product: VerifySMTP -- Error 1001. The
account name is invalid or does not exist, or the password is invalid for
the account name specified, (NULL), (NULL), (NULL), (NULL), (NULL), (NULL).

 

[Guest]

I don't actually know much about services except what I have read on forums and stuff. I guess first and formost if you are trying to install a Local Service which has extensive permissions you would need some sort of admin privilages I'd guess

Failing that perhaps have a look at this article
http://www.devx.com/dotnet/Article/7001/0/page/

Good Luck
Kevin-John Beasley

 

[Chad Crowder]

I figured it out. In the Service Installer component, I found the setting
for the user account. It apparently defaults to "Local Service" account -
which worked fine on my XP development systems and Windows 2003 servers. It
didn't work on any Windows 2000 system. I had to change the setting to be
"Local System" account, and now it installs on Windows 2000 and Windows
2003/XP.

Thanks for the help,
Chad

I don't actually know much about services except what I have read on

forums and stuff. I guess first and formost if you are trying to install a
Local Service which has extensive permissions you would need some sort of
admin privilages I'd guess.