André, thanks. I can confirm that changing the log-on user in Services worked. As Charles notes in the subsequent post, I can see now that the "Log On" tab in "Configure Tomcat" (tomcat6w.exe) mimics the "Log On" tab for a service's properties in the Services admin tool.
On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 1:14 AM, André Warnier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mitch Gitman wrote: > >> >> 2. I literally can't solve this problem while still running as a Windows >> service. >> > [...] > Yes you can... > > - the LocalSystem account is special, one of the special things about it > being that it cannot access Windows network resources. > - if you need Tomcat to access Windows network resources, such as "shares", > then you need to run Tomcat under another user-id. If the system is part of > a Domain, and if to access network resources you need to be logged in the > Domain, then you need a valid Windows Domain user-id (and password) in order > to run Tomcat as such a user-id. > (You can test with your own id). > - when you have such a user-id/password, then go into the "Services" applet > (My computer...,Manage.., Services and Applications,.. Services, right-click > on Tomcat in the right panel, choose Properties, and the "Logon as" tab. > Then change the user-id "Local System" to the Domain user-id above, enter > its password. The account will then automatically receive the permission to > "run as a service" (it will tell you). > - Now if you start the Tomcat service, it will run as that user, with the > normal environment of that user. > You just have to make sure that all the files/directories Tomcat needs are > accessible by the user-id you are running Tomcat under. > > A tip, if this is for a "persistent" installation : the user-id under which > Tomcat runs should have a password that does not "age" (aka does not need to > be changed every so often), because if it does, then after a while your > Tomcat will not start anymore. > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
