Hey Marcus, Is your custom action running as immediate or deferred?
Thanks, Brian Rogers "Intelligence removes complexity." - Me http://icumove.spaces.live.com On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 2:16 AM, Marcus Gelderie <t-mge...@microsoft.com>wrote: > Hey all, > > I am trying to install a WCF web service as a windows service using WIX. > For obvious reasons I don't want that service to run under admin privileges > (since it won't need them) but under the Network Service account. > > As of XP SP2 (afaik) the http namespace (e.g. http://+:80/Foo/) that any > such service wants to use must be registered, giving the appropriate account > the right to use it. So far so good. Now there are three ways that I know of > to make such reservations: > > > 1) Using httpcfg.exe > > 2) Using netsh.exe (under Vista) > > 3) Using some native library to make the changes > > The first two possibilities are somewhat dissatisfying: Under Vista > httpcfg.exe does not exists per default (and is really unnecessary) and > under XP netsh cannot be used to make the reservation ( > http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms733768.aspx). I would like not > to have any dependency on the OS version or the availability of certain > extensions (I take it from the referenced msdn article that under XP > httpcfg.exe is only installed as a part of certain optional SP2 extensions). > Hence I went for option 3. I found a managed wrapper API on the net that can > be used to make the changes. Using that I wrote up a piece of code that > registers an arbitrary namespace for the NetworkService account. If I run > that code under admin privileges (i.e. in a simple console app) it works > just fine. If I run it in a custom action (which I thought had admin > privileges) I get an exception saying "access denied". > > Now I wonder whether there is a better way to go about this. I'm pretty > sure that I'm not the only one who ran into this problem. Alternatively I > would like to know whether there is a good way of getting the custom action > to obtain sufficient privileges to make the adjustment. > > Thanks in advance for your comments > > > Marcus > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
