9.2.3 to 9.3.1 Upgrade

[Jim McAtee]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Vinny Abello" <vinny at tellurian.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2005 6:28 PM
Subject: Re: 9.2.3 to 9.3.1 Upgrade


>>Should the installer have set the necessary permissions, or is this left
>>to the user?  I installed the new version while logged in under a domain
>>admininstrator account.
>
> Sounds as if you are running under Windows 2003 which has tighter 
> permissions (which is good). I generally set the permissions the first 
> time I install it to the proper settings for the needed accounts. This 
> is always a good idea when running a service under an account other than 
> SYSTEM (which is also a good idea). Providing you use the same account 
> in the future there should be no issue. Just give the user read/write 
> access to the installation directory and that should be sufficient. You 
> can get a little more restrictive if you want (writing is not necessary 
> to the bin directory for example).

Windows 2000 Server.  It's not that big a deal, I guess, but you never 
know how many hoops you'll have to jump through when you begin to run into 
permission problems.  I added permissions to C:\WINNT\System32\dns\ for 
the 'named' user account and the service is now running.