"Unable Create Account for the Service" on Windows 2008

[Danny Mayer]

On 8/11/2010 3:32 PM, Gary Gladney wrote:
> Are you using a domain admin account or local admin account? If you
using a domain admin account the system you are doing the install on has
be part of the windows domain that you are adding the account to. If
it's a local account then the problem maybe with SAM file for that
system. A service account is like any other user account, typically the
password does not expire and depending on what the account needs to
access is what groups its a member of.
> 

No, that's not correct. It does not matter if you are using a domain
account or a local account as long as you are an administrator on the
system. The installer tries to create a local account on the system
which has just one privilege: the ability to run as a service. The
created account is not a member of any group by design. This becomes a
problem if it is being installed on a domain controller since it has to
be created as an account in the domain and the code does not handle that
situation.

Danny