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tcom36
Level 7

Give access permissions to "NETWORK SERVICE"

I need to give access permissions (read and write) to a folder for "NETWORK SERVICE".

I have found out, I can add permissions to a folder with the "Files and Folders" part of InstallShield. Within the permissions, I added limited access to Everyone and Full Control to NETWORK SERVICE.

This works great as long as Windows is english.

However on a german windows, the user NETWORK SERVICE is called Netzwerkdienst, resulting in an error message 1332 during installation because of unknown SID.

Is there any property which I could use in order to set either NETWORK SERVICE, Netzwerkdienst or whatever it is called in the different languages?
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Stefan_M
Level 5

You can use "Networkservice".
This name will translated by the OS to the specific language.
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tcom36
Level 7

Thank you for the answer, I will try that.

Is there a list somewhere of what can be used, I could only find "Everyone" ?
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Stefan_M
Level 5

The help file says (see: LockPermissions Table): When you use Windows Installer 2.0 or later, the common user names "Everyone" and "Administrators" may be entered in English and are mapped to well-known SIDs.

Search in http://support.microsoft.com/search/default.aspx for "NT AUTHORITY". Maybe you will find something else.
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