"Unable Create Account for the Service" on Windows 2008

[Gary Gladney]

Are you using a domain admin account or local admin account?  If you using a domain admin account the system you are doing the install on has be part of the windows domain that you are adding the account to.  If it's a local account then the problem maybe with SAM file for that system.  A service account is like any other user account, typically the password does not expire and depending on what the account needs to access is what groups its a member of.

Gary


Gary Gladney
Network Mgr
Space Telescope Science Institute
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---- Original message ----
>Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 15:12:07 -0400
>From: bind-users-bounces+gladney=stsci.edu at lists.isc.org (on behalf of Danny Mayer <mayer at gis.net>)
>Subject: Re: "Unable Create Account for the Service" on Windows 2008  
>To: bind-users at lists.isc.org
>
>On 8/11/2010 1:13 PM, HelixGalaxy wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>  
>> I have a fresh installation of Windows Server 2008 (not R2).
>>  
>> Trying to install BIND 9.7.1-P2 ver and when runing the installer,
>> putting in the password, I get this error:
>>  
>> "Unable Create Account for the Service"
>>  
>> The installer just stops on this error and nothing is done.
>>  
>> I'm runing in Administration account, so I should have all permissions.
>> I have tried to figure this out, but I'm lost. Haven't found any solution.
>>  
>> Maybe you have some for me???
>>  
>> Regards,
>> Martin
>
>It may work if you include the domain name as well as the name of the
>account. I assume that you are installing on a domain controller which
>has some other requirements when creating accounts. I never did get
>around to looking at this issue.
>
>Danny
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