Does anyone have any ideas for this problem? Would prompting for the account at install time necessarily solve this issue?
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 4:55 PM, Jordan McCulty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > I have a WiX MSI setup that installs a service process using ServiceInstall > and ServiceControl thusly: > > <ServiceInstall Id="ServiceId" Name="ServiceName" DisplayName="Display > Name" Description="Description" ErrorControl="normal" Start="auto" > Type="ownProcess" Vital="yes" Account="LocalSystem" /> > <ServiceControl Id="ServiceId" Name="ServiceName" Start="install" > Stop="both" Remove="uninstall" Wait="yes" /> > > This configuration works great, and I even have upgrades working > seamlessly, with one exception. Some of my customers choose to run the > service under a different user than LocalSystem (this choice is almost > always made after the fact, otherwise I could prompt during installation). > When this happens, the upgrade will fail with an access denied error > message. If the customer changes the service back to LocalSystem and tries > the upgrade again, it works fine. Has anyone else run into this? Is there > a way to workaround this issue? Ideally, the user under which the service > is currently running should be transparent to the installer. Since the user > is running the installation as administrator I wouldn't expect any > permission problems. > > I'm running an older 3.0 build of WiX (3.0.3829.0). I may be able to > upgrade to a more current version if necessary in order to solve the > problem. > > Thanks in advance. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
