Service only start when certain account is used

viceroy · Post by **viceroy** » 05 Jul 2007, 17:26

I've written a service which works perfectly, but only when running with my domain account which has no special attributes other than local admin rights

We've created another account which is supposed to be used to run the service and it has the same rights as my account, and I've also specifically given it local admin rights on the server its running on, yet I get the following error

Could not start the SMS_Service on Local Computer.

Error 1053: The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion.

Problem is that the error pops up as soon as the service is started so its definately not a timeout.

MS have two related articles describing hotfixes and I've tried both without success

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/839174
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/886695

Can anyone help me with this as I need to get it sorted out ASAP

ps. the service was written using VB.net

Post by **Anthro** » 05 Jul 2007, 19:54

Does it interface with any databases by any chance ?

viceroy · Post by **viceroy** » 05 Jul 2007, 21:18

it does, but that username and password is hardcoded into the code.

as I said the SMS account we want to use has the same rights as my account.

Judas · Post by **Judas** » 05 Jul 2007, 21:22

Doesn't the service store a logfile somewhere, or use the Windows event log? That's always a big help in troubleshooting...

Post by **Anthro** » 05 Jul 2007, 21:26

I have found that you need to give a specific user access to a database module in iis - the error was something random
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