Help needed configuring Bind 9

[Danny Mayer]

Mark Andrews wrote:
>>>Run BINDInstall again and Uninstall it using the Uninstall button. Exit
>>>and then come back in. This time when you install, supply a password.
>>>This should allow the service to be correctly set up.
>>>
>>>Danny
>>
>>Almost. I had to use a new account name ("named2"), and I had to go to
>>services to change ISC Bind from "named" to "named2".
>>
>>The uninstaller won't remove the service account if it created it.
>>A reinstall will not change the existing null password
>>A reinstall will not update which account the service is supposed to use.
>>
>>But it is finally installed, working, and maybe this will help any
>>other windows users who run into this sort of thing.
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> 	Note it is possible to give the original "named" account
> 	a password.  I can't remember how I did it at the time
> 	but I did it.
> 

If you do remember, please let me know. I may be getting involved with 
setting up a XP Home box, but I don't know if I will get time to look at 
it. I could write some code to do this, but I would prefer not to. I'll 
put in a fix to disallow empty strings in the installer.

Danny
> 	Mark
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