I don't believe there's any requirement that the local admin group have the name "Administrators" (it's easy to go into the group names and change it). Most of the code I've seen that wants to know the name of the group uses the standard SID for the group then uses LookupAccountSid to get the name. That might be worth checking on the machines where it fails.
Phil Wilson From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bikash Agrawala Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2007 10:26 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Failed to get group 'STUONBBOX5DOM/Administrators' Hi, We are facing a issue. Actually our MSI occasionally fails when it tries to add a user to the Administrators group. It is not able to find out Administrators group itself ???.This is a random behavior. It has been observed that the problem happens more often when virtual 1-box is being used Instead of physical 1-box. The MSI is installed using the Administrator login and the machine is a domain controller named (STUONBBOX5DOM).The OCSDumpUser is the Domain user of STUONBBOX5DOM. The following is the log that is being generated which is of interest MSI (s) (D8:24) [00:54:45:062]: Executing op: ActionStart(Name=CreateUser,,) MSI (s) (D8:24) [00:54:45:062]: Executing op: CustomActionSchedule(Action=CreateUser,ActionType=11265,Source=BinaryData,Target=**********,CustomActionData=**********) MSI (s) (D8:24) [00:54:45:062]: Creating MSIHANDLE (138) of type 790536 for thread 1572 MSI (s) (D8:A8) [00:54:45:062]: Invoking remote custom action. DLL: D:\WINDOWS\Installer\MSIE7.tmp, Entrypoint: CreateUser MSI (s) (D8:80) [00:54:45:062]: Generating random cookie. MSI (s) (D8:80) [00:54:45:062]: Created Custom Action Server with PID 2984 (0xBA8). MSI (s) (D8:64) [00:54:45:078]: Running as a service. MSI (s) (D8:64) [00:54:45:078]: Hello, I'm your 32bit Elevated custom action server. MSI (s) (D8!78) [00:55:06:828]: Creating MSIHANDLE (139) of type 790531 for thread 4728 CreateUser: Error 0x80004005: Failed to get group 'STUONBBOX5DOM/Administrators'. MSI (s) (D8!78) [00:55:06:828]: Closing MSIHANDLE (139) of type 790531 for thread 4728 MSI (s) (D8!78) [00:55:06:828]: Creating MSIHANDLE (140) of type 790531 for thread 4728 CreateUser: Error 0x80004005: failed to add user: OCSDumpUser to group Administrators The following is the lines in the wxs file that does the needful. <Group Id='AdministratorsGroup' Domain='[PCFDUMPTOOLDOMAIN]' Name='Administrators' /> : : : <User Id='PCFDumpUser' Name='[PCFDUMPTOOLACCOUNT]' Domain='[PCFDUMPTOOLDOMAIN]' CreateUser='yes' UpdateIfExists='yes' RemoveOnUninstall='no' Password='[PCFDUMPTOOLPASSWORD]'> <GroupRef Id='AdministratorsGroup' /> </User> Please give me some pointers on how the problem can be debugged. Regards Bikash ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: The Future of Linux Business White Paper from Novell. From the desktop to the data center, Linux is going mainstream. Let it simplify your IT future. http://altfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/8857-50307-18918-4 _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
