Error 5 Access Denied when starting windows service

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I m getting this error when I try to start a windows service I ve created in C      My Code so far   private ServiceHost host   null   public RightAccessHost         InitializeComponent       protected override void OnStart string   args        host   new ServiceHost typeof RightAccessWcf        host Open       protected override void OnStop         if  host    null          host Close        host   null      Update  1  I solved the issue above by granting permissions to the account NETWORK SERVICE but now I have an another problem     Update  2     Service cannot be started  System InvalidOperationException  Service  RightAccessManagementWcf RightAccessWcf  has zero application  non-infrastructure  endpoints  This might be because no configuration file was found for your application  or because no service element matching the service name could be found in the configuration file  or because no endpoints were defined in the service element       at System ServiceModel Description DispatcherBuilder EnsureThereAreNonMexEndpoints ServiceDescription description       at System ServiceModel Description DispatcherBuilder InitializeServiceHost ServiceDescription description  ServiceHostBase serviceHost       at System ServiceModel ServiceHostBase InitializeRuntime        at System ServiceModel ServiceHostBase OnOpen TimeSpan timeout       at System ServiceModel Channels CommunicationObject Open TimeSpan timeout       at RightAccessHosting RightAccessHost OnStart String   args  in C  Users

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I had this issue on a service that I was deploying  and none of the other suggestions on this question worked  In my case  it was because my  config  xml  wasn t valid  I made a copy and paste error when copying from qualif to prod

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Computer -  Manage -  Service -   your service  properties  Then the the tab with the account information  Play with those settings  like run the service with administrator account or so   That did it for me   EDIT  What also can be the problem is that  most services are run as LOCAL SERVICE or LOCAL SYSTEM accounts  Now when you run C  my-admin-dir service exe with those accounts but they are not allowed to execute anything in that directory  you will get error 5  So locate the executable of the service  RMB the directory -  Properties -  Security and make sure that the account the service is run with  is in the list of users that are alloewd to have full control over the directory

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I realize this post is old  but there s no marked solution and I just wanted to throw in how I resolved this   The first Error 5  Access Denied error was resolved by giving permissions to the output directory to the NETWORK SERVICE account   The second Started and then stopped error seems to be a generic message when something faulted the service  Check the Event Viewer  specifically the  Windows Logs   Application   for the real error message   In my case  it was a bad service configuration setting in app config

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In my case  I had to add  Authenticated Users  in the list of  Group or User Names  in the folder where the executable was installed

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Right click on the service in service msc and select property   You will see a folder path under Path to executable like C  Users Me Desktop project Tor Tor tor exe  Navigate to C  Users Me Desktop project Tor and right click on Tor    Select property  security  edit and then add  In the text field enter LOCAL SERVICE  click ok and then check the box FULL CONTROL  Click on add again then enter NETWORK SERVICE  click ok   check the box FULL CONTROL  Then click ok  at the bottom

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if you are a having an access denied error code 5  then probably in your code your service is trying to interact with some files in the system like writing to a log file  open the services properties select log on tab  and check option to allow service to interact with the desktop

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In my case I kept the project on desktop and to access the desktop we need to add permission to the folder so I simply moved my project folder to C   directory now its working like a charm

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This error happens when there is a error in your OnStart method   You cannot open a host directly in OnStart method because it will not actually open when it is called  but instead it will wait for the control  So you have to use a thread  This is my example   public partial class Service1   ServiceBase       ServiceHost host      Thread hostThread      public Service1                 InitializeComponent             hostThread  new Thread new ThreadStart StartHosting                protected override void OnStart string   args                hostThread Start               protected void StartHosting                 host   new ServiceHost typeof WCFAuth Service AuthService            host Open               protected override void OnStop                 if  host    null              host Close

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For the error 5  i did the opposite to the solution above    The first Error 5  Access Denied error was resolved by giving permissions to the output directory to the NETWORK SERVICE account    I changed mine to local account  instead of network service account  and because i was logged in as administrator it worked

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I had this issue today on a service that I was developing  and none of the other suggestions on this question worked   In my case  I had a missing  dll dependency in the folder where the service ran from   When I added the dependencies  the issue went away

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Use LocalSystem Account instead of LocalService Account in Service Installer    You can do this either from doing below change in design view of your service installer   Properties of Service Process Installer -  Set Account to LocalSystem    or by doing below change in in designer cs file of your service installer    this serviceProcessInstaller1 Account   System ServiceProcess ServiceAccount LocalSystem

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I also got the same error   It resolved by Right click on Service   Properties  Log On   log on as   Local System Account

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If you are getting this error on a server machine try give access to the folder you got the real windows service exe  You should go to the security tab and select the Local Service as user and should give full access  You should do the same for the exe too

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This worked for me    Right-click on top-level folder containing the service executable  Go to Properties Go to  Security  Tab Click  EDIT  Click  ADD  Enter the name  SYSTEM   click OK Highlight SYSTEM user  and click ALLOW check-box next to  Full control  Click OK twice

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Your code may be running in the security context of a user that is not allowed to start a service   Since you are using WCF  I am guessing that you are in the context of NETWORK SERVICE   see  http   support microsoft com kb 256299

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Make sure the Path to executable points to an actual executable  Right click service -  Properties -  General tab   Via powershell  and sc exe  you can install a service without pointing to an actual executable    ahem

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I had windows service hosted using OWIN and TopShelf  I was not able to start it  Same error -  Access denied 5   I ended up giving all the perms to my bin Debug   The issue was still not resolved   So I had a look in the event logs and it turned out that the Microsoft Owin Host HttpListener was not included in the class library containing the OWIN start up class   So  please make sure you check the event log to identify the root cause before beginning to get into perms  etc

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After banging my had against my desk for a few hours trying to figure this out  somehow my  Main  method got emptied of it s code   ServiceBase   ServicesToRun  ServicesToRun   new ServiceBase           new DMTestService      ServiceBase Run ServicesToRun     Other solutions I found    Updating the  NET framework to 4 0  Making sure the service name inside the InitializeComponent   matches the installer service name property  private void InitializeComponent       this ServiceName    DMTestService    And a nice server restart doesn t hurt   Szhlopp

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In my case following was not checked

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I was getting this error because I misread the accepted answer from here  Create Windows service from executable   sc exe create  lt new service name gt  binPath    lt path to the service executable gt     For  lt path to service executable gt   I was using the path of the executable s folder  e g  C  Folder   It needs to be the path of the executable  e g  C  Folder Executable exe

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One of the causes for this error is insufficient permissions  Authenticated Users  in your local folder  To give permission for  Authenticated Users  Open the security tab in properties of your folder  Edit and Add  Authenticated Users  group and Apply changes   Once this was done I was able to run services even through network service account  before this I was only able to run with Local system account

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I got the solution   1  Go to local service window where all services found  2  Just right click on your service name   3  click on  properties   4  go to  log on  tab 5  select  local system account  6  click  ok    now you can try to start the service

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I don t know if my answer would make sense to many  but I too faced the same issue and the solution was outrageously simple  All I had to do was to open the program which I used to run the code as an administrator   right-click --  Run as Administrator     That was all

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check windows event log for detailed error message  I resolved the same after checking event log

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I have monitored sppsvc exe using process monitor and found out that it was trying to write to the HKEY LOCAL MACHINE SYSTEM WPA key  After giving permissions to NETWORK SERVICE on this key  I was able to start the service and Windows suddenly recognized that it was activated again

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Have a look at Process Utilities  gt  Process monitor from http   www sysinternals com   This is tool that allows you monitor what a process does  If you monitor this service process  you should see an access denied somewhere  and on what resource the access denied is given

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Click the Start menu and choose Run or use the keyboard shortcut of Win R   In the dialog box  type lusrmgr msc  When this application opens  click Users in the left-hand panel and then right click Administrator in the right-hand panel  Click Properties in the menu   In the Administrator Properties dialog  choose the Member Of tab  then click the Add    button at the lower right  From the next dialog  choose Advanced     Another dialog will appear  From there click Find Now on the right  A list of search results will appear at the bottom of the dialog  Select Network Services from this list and click OK on each of the open dialogs

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For me - the folder from which the service was to run  and the files in it  were encrypted using the Windows  Encrypt  option  Removing that and - voila

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In may case system run out of free space on local disk

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I accidentally set my service to run as Local service solution was to switch to Local System

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As the error popup suggests this is related to permission  So run the service as  LocalSystem  account    To do the same  Right Click on serviceProcessInstaller - gt  Properties - gt  Account and set it to  LocalSystem  instead of the default  User   Install the service and voila

[c#] Error 5 : Access Denied when starting windows service

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