Req: Total beginners help - Win Q.

[Techie]

Danny Mayer <mayer at gis.net> wrote in news:doc5o5$19k0$1 at sf1.isc.org:

> 
> Empty passwords cannot be used for a service. That's a Microsoft
> limitation. 

True perhaps but even with a password entered into the installation, it 
still does not run at all. Not until I changed it to run on local system 
would the service start.

> 
>> 
>> And as Danny Meyer said, I didn't read any application log file
>> because I have none of it. There is nothing stored logging anything
>> anywhere in the setup I did.
>> 
> If you don't have an application event log, you need to create one.
> You need it, and not just for BIND.
> 
>> Not even in the Document and settings folder, where the app logs
>> should be located. So, not much to read in other words. :(
>> 
> Application Event Logs are available through the Event Viewer. They
> are not available in Documents...
> 
> Danny


As above, the application log in the event viewer will not log anything 
unless it has been started once. Since I couldnt start the service until 
changing to run as local system did I get an app log to show up.

Now I have one and now it's running fine.

Except, even though the user /.named is there, this will not work at all.

Also, the system.log and activity.log are reading and writing fine now.

I also updated the entry for the direcory path so it would pick up the 
files in a better / proper manner.

Thanks again Danny.