The "Error 5" message originates from back in the DOS days. It means that the user does not have sufficient rights to do whatever they were trying to do. Most likely in this case. Your localsystem account was not setup to allow it to run as a service. I am sorry that I have not used Windows 2000 and therefore can't help further.
-----Original Message----- From: Joe Eckstrom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 10:48 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [WhatsUp Forum] Running WhatsUp as an NT Service This is a Windows 2000 Server machine. I'm not trying to use the Service Monitor Plugin -- I'm trying to run the program as a service, in the background, rather than as a console application. I do have it running now, but I'm still trying to figure out what the problem was. The fix was to have it log in as our Domain Administrator account, rather than LocalSystem. What rights would a Domain Administrator have that a default-install LocalSystem account would not? How can I modify the LocalSystem account to have these rights? The current solution can only work for testing purposes. I have also tried it as the local administrator account and with an account I created specifically for testing that I added to the local "Administrators" group. The only way I can get it to start is with the Domain Administrator account. Thanks for your help! Joe Eckstrom >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/25/03 09:08AM >>> http://support.ipswitch.com/kb/WG-19990802-DM02.htm In reply to 25 Feb message from [EMAIL PROTECTED]: >Joe, >You could try to run the service as your account. >Here is a related KB article. >What is the OS of this box? >Regards, >Joe >In reply to 25 Feb message from [EMAIL PROTECTED]: >>Whenever I try to get WhatsUp Gold 7.04 to run in the background >>as a service, I get the error message "Error 5: Access is >>Denied." The service just fails to load, and I can't find any >>documentation on this error message. I have it running using >> the LocalSystem account, Automatic (it fails on boot, too). It >>throws these error messages out quickly, usually in under a >>second. >>What configuration options should I look at? Is this fixed by the >>8.x releases? >>Thanks a lot! >>Joseph Eckstrom >>DaVita Inc. DaVita Inc. Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/whatsup_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/whatsup_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/
