We removed it from our installer, not WiX. Rob
On 16/03/2010 01:01, John H. Bergman (XPedient Technologies) wrote: > Really? You removed that option. Was that done in 3.5 or 3.0? > > I was able to specify the user that the service ran as, and it installed > correctly. What I was unable to do was to get the package to uninstall when > I did. > > John > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Rob Hamflett [mailto:r...@snsys.com] > Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2010 11:07 AM > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] install service > > If you don't specify a user it gets installed as the SYSTEM user, and in this > case it should work. > If you need to specify a different user then things get diffcult. I looked > at this a few years ago on XP (at the time Vista wasn't out yet, so who knows > what happens there) and if I remember correctly none of the other users have > permission to start a service by default, even the Administrator. If you > open the Services panel and change the login details for a service, then the > Administrator user is auto-granted the necessary permissions (a dialog tells > you so), but until that point it's not capable. I got round it by writing a > deferred custom action that gave the given user the necessary rights. > Thankfully it all got abandoned as we removed the option to specify the user > the service ran as. > > Rob > > On 11/03/2010 16:21, Shabbir Ahsan wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> >> >> I am attempting to install a windows service with wix but keep getting the >> following error: >> >> >> Service 'MyService' (MyService) could not be installed. Verify that you >> have sufficient privileges to install system services. >> >> >> I have attempted as normal user, full admin user, but still get this >> message. Creating an install log, I can see the same error pessage but with >> Error 1923 appended. Looking this up, I can see the same erro message -ie >> no more info is available on this. >> >> >> >> The code in my wxs file is: >> >> >> >> <File Id="MyServiceFile" Name="$(var.MyService.TargetFileName)" >> Source="$(var.MyService.TargetPath)" >> >> DiskId="1" KeyPath="yes" /> >> >> <ServiceInstall Id="MyService" >> >> Name="MyService" Account="NetworkService" >> >> Type="ownProcess" >> >> ErrorControl="normal" >> >> Description="my description" >> >> Start="auto" >> >>> >> >> >> >> any help is much appreciated. thanks. >> >> >> >> _________________________________________________________________ >> Do you have a story that started on Hotmail? Tell us now >> http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/195013117/direct/01/ >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> -------- Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new >> software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, >> and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. >> See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for > yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications > for parallel performance. > See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval > Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs > proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. > See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
