Service executable on a network path running as LocalSystem?

From: Edward Forgacs (edward.forgacs_at_optusnet.com.au)
Date: 12/01/04

  • Next message: Daniel: "Windows Service System Account Permissions" 
    Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 13:02:59 +1100

    While this sounds quite absurd, I know it is possible to get this to work.
    Let me explain.

    My "My Documents" folder is located at a network path because I use offline
    files on my laptop. This means that all of my visual studio projects are in
    a network location (this is how I want things to stay). Because it is a
    "special" folder, however, this means that the SYSTEM account has full
    control permissions to the network folder containing my documents..

    For some time I have been debugging a service in which the executable was in
    this network folder. The service started and worked perfectly.
    Today I created a new a account on the domain. Since then nothing I have
    tried will make the service start as long as the executable is in a network
    folder and the startup type is set to LocalSystem.

    If I move the execuable to a local drive, it works. If I change the security
    permissions to make it use a domain acount, it works.

    My question is, how the heck do I get it working again from a network path
    with the startup type set to local system?

    I need it this way because it *has* to be debugged from this network
    location and it *has* to be deployed as LocalSystem. I don't want to switch
    the logon type when it is deployed.

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