Hi all,
Our installer installs a service that should run on XP/Vista as "NT
Authority\Network Service".
We're using custom actions to set a McNeelUpdateServiceName property
appropriately, and then use that property in the <ServiceInstall> action.
Depending on how I spell "Network Service" the user account name,
installation of the service either succeeds or fails with error 1923 -
but it's not consistent on all platforms.
Attached is the wxs file that defines the installation of the service.
Here are the various configurations I've tried:
*NT Authority\Network Service
* *NT Authority\NetworkService
* *Network Service
* *NetworkService
*
Windows XP English
Works
Fails
Fails
Fails
Windows XP Spanish
Fails
Works
? ?
Vista 64 English
Works
Works
?
?
Vista 32 Spanish
Fails
Works
?
?
Is it really true that installing services on Windows is this hard?
This leaves me with three options:
1. Have a bunch of special cases and detect the "correct" verison of
NetworkService based on the local system settings. This will be
lots of fun, given that we have customers all over the world.
2. Determine a one-size-fits-all version of "NT Authority\Network
Service" that work on all platforms.
3. Install as LocalSystem. That seems irresponsible from a principle
of least-privilege perspective.
Any other ideas? Help!
- Brian
Brian Gillespie
Rhinoceros Development | Robert McNeel & Associates |
http://www.rhino3d.com
/"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in
practice, there is."/
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