Re: XP SP2 Network connections gone!

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From: Hans-Georg Michna (hans-georgNoEmailPlease_at_michna.com)
Date: 08/29/04 

Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 23:17:29 +0200

On Sun, 29 Aug 2004 13:55:14 +0300, "George Birbilis"
<birbilis@kagi.com> wrote:

>In my system I found out the XPSP2 setup had failed to compete:
>
>it was installing a service to finish up stuff after reboot, but that
>service (and many others on the PC) was dependent on RPCSS service which was
>failing to start cause the XPSP2 had changed the user account for that
>service to "NetworkService" (it had also changed some other services to
>"LocalService" and they were failing to start too) from "LocalSystem". In
>some of those service account change cases it had "NT AUTHORITY\" prefix
>there, that one doesn't seem to be the problem though
>
>the problem was it hadn't created those accounts!

George,

this is strange. I don't have any accounts with these names
either, yet on my computers the services start just fine. I
think these services are internal ones that don't show up in
User Manager or Computer Management.

Where did you check to find out whether these users exist?

Hans-Georg 

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