Managed Service Access Denied

[oacej5v0l3]

I’m writing a Windows service in C# that needs to run in the NetworkService account, but when I create an Installer and set ServiceProcessInstaller.Account to NetworkService on an otherwise unaltered new project, I get an “Error 5: Access Denied” message when I try to start the service, even when logged in as Administrator.

[nevarmore]

What does it do if you try and set the account to something else?

i.e ServiceProcessorInstaller.Account = Administrator

[Whiteknight]

does your application have the necessary permissions to make such a call?

[oacej5v0l3]

As it turns out, this was a monumentally stupid question.

I watched the "net start" command with filemon, and found out that the "access denied" message was caused by the fact that VisualStudio.NET was outputing the exe file in a subdirectory of my My Documents folder, which the "NETWORK SERVICE" user did not have access to.

Thanks for the suggestions; sorry for wasting your time.