Trouble with Search Accounts (MOS 2007)

[mike50]

(I'm using the several hundred page 2008 MS doc to instal and setup MOSS).

I am in Sharepoint 3.0 Central Administration, looking at the
Administrator's To-Do task list. Going down them one-by-one, I got to the services part. I was able to start all but the MOSS and WSS search services. In each case I get an error that the username &/or password is invalid. Can't find anything in the Event Logs, and I don't have enough to go on to search technet.

I setup 2 accounts each for MOSS and WSS search (search and content access/crawl). The accounts are Domain User accounts with logon rights for the MOSS server only (DC is running Small Business Server 2003 Premium SP1, and the MOSS server is running Windows Server 2003 Std. R2 SP2). I've tried entering them in both "username" and "domain\username" formats - but no
luck. I even did a change-password to re-enter the 14-charecter passwords in case I got them wrong - but no luck.. Check the Help button in the upper right, but it doesn't get that deep for this area.

What am I missing?

TIA!

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Mike Webb
Platte River Whooping Crane Maintenance Trust, Inc.
a conservation non-profit (501 (c)(3)) organization
Wood River, NE

[mike50]

Looks like my problem was I forgot to create SQL Login accounts for them. Once I do I should be okay.

[mike50]

Wound up uninstalling then reinstalling MOSS, configuring SQL logins prior, and all is well.

[Jay Mueller]

Aug 1, 2008 7:15:04 GMT -6 mike50 said:

(I'm using the several hundred page 2008 MS doc to instal and setup MOSS).

I am in Sharepoint 3.0 Central Administration, looking at the
Administrator's To-Do task list. Going down them one-by-one, I got to the services part. I was able to start all but the MOSS and WSS search services. In each case I get an error that the username &/or password is invalid. Can't find anything in the Event Logs, and I don't have enough to go on to search technet.

I setup 2 accounts each for MOSS and WSS search (search and content access/crawl). The accounts are Domain User accounts with logon rights for the MOSS server only (DC is running Small Business Server 2003 Premium SP1, and the MOSS server is running Windows Server 2003 Std. R2 SP2). I've tried entering them in both "username" and "domain\username" formats - but no
luck. I even did a change-password to re-enter the 14-charecter passwords in case I got them wrong - but no luck.. Check the Help button in the upper right, but it doesn't get that deep for this area.

What am I missing?

TIA!

--
Mike Webb
Platte River Whooping Crane Maintenance Trust, Inc.
a conservation non-profit (501 (c)(3)) organization
Wood River, NE

After your reinstall if you used the Domain accounts MOSS during the install automatically sets up permissions to the databases that it needs. For Service Accounts you will want to reference this document which explains what each service account needs.

technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263445.aspx