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What you ask for would require you to alter the service's configuration.
You can't just start the service programmably with a given user account
directly.  You need to either 1) use the SCM to manually change the account,
2) specify the account programmably via CreateService() if installing the
service programmably, or else 3) use the ChangeServiceConfig() function to
alter an existing service.

Also note that if you are using Borland's TService class, it has a
ServiceStartName property that you can set at design-time, which gets
applied when the TService is installed (which calls CreateService()
internally)

Also note that Win2K and XP both have pre-defined accounts specifically
designed (albeit more limited than the LocalSystem account) to allow
services access to the network, rather than needing to use an actual user
account.  They are named "NT_AUTHORITY\LocalService" and
"NT_AUTHORITY\NetworkService".

Also note that as an alternative, the service can manually log in to a user
account via LogonUser() and then impersonate the user via
ImpersonateLoggedOnUser() in order to gain access to the network without
having to alter the service's configuration.


Gambit

"Simon Macneall" <macneall-at-iinet.net.au> wrote in message
news:Xns933E87F54F0B0macnealliinetnetau@207.105.83.65...

> Our service application needs to be run under a given
> user account (needs access to mapped drives). We can set
> this manually, but would really like it to be an automagic
> process. Does anyone know how to set the log on as
> property of a service through the API (or even a
> definative, "It can't be done" would help).