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I have developed a windows service using C# and Visual Studio 2008. I have Windows XP SP2 installed on my machine. When I try to install the service using the installutil tool, after entering the username and password, I get the following error.
An exception occurred during the Install phase. System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception: The account name is invalid or does not exist, or the password is invalid for the account name specified.
But the user does exist. I had created the user through control panel → User accounts → Create new account.
The command I used for installing the service was:
installutil /i TestService.exe How can I resolve the issue?
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Start service Open Start. Search for Command Prompt, right-click the top result, and select the Run as administrator option. Type the following command to start a service and press Enter: net start "SERVICE-NAME" In the command, replace "SERVICE-NAME" for the name or display name of the service.
The account may also need to be given the "Log on as a service" account right; pass the SE_SERVICE_LOGON_NAME constant to the LsaAddAccountRights() API.
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If the account is a local user account, try to use .\username when installutil prompts for the username and password.
The .\ stands for local machine.
Services require a fully qualified username (with domain), so when installing you need to be explicit about local user accounts.
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