BIND on Windows Vista

Danny Mayer mayer at gis.net
Thu Aug 16 02:45:56 UTC 2007


Fabien wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm facing the same trouble, I think it's related to the UAC feature on
> Vista, but not sure.
> I'm running Vista 32 bits.
> 
> Actually, I did manage to start BIND only under my personal account
> (I had to add myself in the "log on as a service" privilege and change
> the service properties).
> 
> If you execute "named -g" in a "run as administrator" CLI, it's OK
> If you execute "named -g" under your session, it's OK
> If you execute "named -g" under named account (runas), it first crashes,
> then output this :
> 15-aout-2007 19:53:32.144 starting BIND 9.4.1-P1 -g
> 15-aout-2007 19:53:32.149 found 2 CPUs, using 2 worker threads
> and generates the c0000005 error, but I don't know what named is
> violating (memory access ? thread ? registry ?).
> 
> Really curious,
> I've tried to tag named.exe to run under administrator rights, no change.
> I've tried to add the named account into Administrators group, no change.
> I've also added full permissions for named account on the BIND folders,
> I thought named had to write something within, but no change.
> 
> any idea why the named account can't manage to start the service ? even
> with some administrative rights ?
> 

This requires running under the debugger to figure this out. It's not
clear what's wrong.

Danny

> Cheers
> Fabien

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