In the past I have seen installers where the user and domain names are in different dialogs. I don't know why you are seeing the issues you are with the UI and the "\" character.
As to the service start issue - does the service use either anything you install into the GAC or any win32 SxS you install (using fusion)? Such as any fi...@assembly attributes or any use of Microsoft's C/C++ runtime MSMs? Those things get final installation/setup towards the end of InstallFinalize and so are not available for the default sequencing of StartServices. You should see something in the event viewer in that case. -----Original Message----- From: NateBank [mailto:etherw...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 1:40 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Setting account info in merge module from MSI dialog For now I'm going forward on the assumption that we won't be shipping the merge modules, and I came to a similar conclusion last night; I have since changed all the merge modules to wixlibs, and I'm making progress... But I have run into new and exciting roadblocks. The first, which I admit I just ran into and am still researching, is that in my quest to get the dialog to allow the user to specify a domain account I have discovered that it does not like the DOMAIN\username syntax. If I use usern...@domain it installs the service with the new credentials. So now I'm looking for the proper way to escape the account name, and I am now wondering if I will also run into issues with passwords that contain non-alphanumeric characters... The second and more frustrating problem is that the service won't start from the MSI. It appears to install fine, but when it tries to start it eventually it will fail: Verify that you have sufficient privileges to start system services. I followed Rob's advice to another developer running into this problem over on StackOverflow and tried starting the service from the services console to see if I get a more detailed error. It started just fine. Didn't tell me the account was granted log on as a service right, no fanfare, just started up happily, defiantly. I'm certain it smirked. Any advice on wiping the grin off its face would be greatly appreciated. Blair-2 wrote: > > Are you intending to ship the merge modules to others, or are you simply > using them as a "library" for your own use? > > If the latter, I would recommend wixlibs instead of merge modules. If the > former, you have to explicitly author the merge modules to support > "configuration" and/or explicitly mark specific items as "suppress > modularization" in order to set properties in the merge module. > -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/Setting-account-info-in-merge-module-from-MSI-dialog-tp 3568432p3575947.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
