RTFM? Doh! I'm doing some final testing now, and your suggestion appears to work perfectly.
Thanks Neil, and thanks WiX crew for putting together such an excellent installer authoring tool - it has been a pleasure to work with compared to anything I've used in the past. - 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."/ Neil Sleightholm wrote: > Take a look at the WixQueryOsWellKnownSID topic in the help file, this > should allow you to use a "well known sid" for the account id which > should work on all languages. > > Neil > > -----Original Message----- > From: Brian Gillespie [mailto:br...@mcneel.com] > Sent: 14 April 2009 19:48 > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [WiX-users] Installing .NET service as "NT Authority\Network > Service" fails on some locales of Windows XP > > 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."/ > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.net email is sponsored by: > High Quality Requirements in a Collaborative Environment. > Download a free trial of Rational Requirements Composer Now! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/www-ibm-com > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: High Quality Requirements in a Collaborative Environment. Download a free trial of Rational Requirements Composer Now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/www-ibm-com _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
