2008 Installation (Service Accounts)

[sshafe]

am in the process of trying to install 2008 using domain accounts for the services and receiving the error "the credentials you provided for the SQL Server Agent service are invalid. To continue, provide a valid account and password for the SQL Server Agent service"

I am an administrator on this box. Any domain ID I try to use get's this error. If I use a local account (doesn't even have to be an administrator), it works fine.

PLEASE HELP! What am I missing????

This is from setup bootstrap file:
2008-10-13 09:19:52 Slp: Sco: Attempting to look up AD entry for user txfb-ins\utsme02
2008-10-13 09:19:52 Slp: Sco.User.OpenRoot - root DirectoryEntry object already opened for this computer for this object
2008-10-13 09:19:52 Slp: Sco.User.LookupADEntry - Attempting to find user account txfb-ins\utsme02
2008-10-13 09:19:52 Slp: Sco: Attempting to check if container 'WinNT://txfb-ins' of user account exists
2008-10-13 09:19:52 Slp: UserSecurity.ValidateCredentials -- Exception caught and ignored, exception is General access denied error
2008-10-13 09:19:52 Slp: UserSecurity.ValidateCredentials -- user validation failed
2008-10-13 09:19:52 SQLEngine: --InputValidator: Engine: Validating System Data Directory C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL10.MSSQLSERVER\MSSQL\DATA
2008-10-13 09:19:52 Slp: Sco: Attempting to get directory information for path C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL10.MSSQLSERVER\MSSQL\DATA
2008-10-13 09:19:52 SQLEngine: --InputValidator: Engine: Checking if directory UNC Path

 

[JayKusch]

Is the domain account you are using work for the other services like the main SQL Server service?

Thanks

J. Kusch

 

[mrdenny]

Are you logged onto the machine with a domain account or a local account?

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