Dear All,

I have written a simple service which was working fine in my machine (Windows XP), but when i installed the same Service in our Testing Server which is running under Windows Server 2003, getting an error

VB.NET Service Err 1053: The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion..

felt this as very strange..need help asap

Hi, netnovice,

It seems that this is a known issue.

Please check this kb article

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/886695

And the cause is

quoted

"This problem occurs because the Iisutil.dll DLL adds an access control entry (ACE) to the desktop security descriptor for the services that run in the system context. The ACE lets the Microsoft Internet Information Services Worker Process Group (IIS_WPG) account log on to the system service desktop. However, if another process sets the desktop security descriptor for the services that run in the system context to a null value, Iisutil.dll changes the discretionary access control list (DACL). Iisutil.dll changes the DACL list so that any service that uses the noninteractive local system account cannot log on."

So, you should request http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=6294451to get a hotfix for this issue.

Hope this helps,

Regards

Hi, netnovice,

It seems that this is a known issue.

Please check this kb article

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/886695

And the cause is

quoted

"This problem occurs because the Iisutil.dll DLL adds an access control entry (ACE) to the desktop security descriptor for the services that run in the system context. The ACE lets the Microsoft Internet Information Services Worker Process Group (IIS_WPG) account log on to the system service desktop. However, if another process sets the desktop security descriptor for the services that run in the system context to a null value, Iisutil.dll changes the discretionary access control list (DACL). Iisutil.dll changes the DACL list so that any service that uses the noninteractive local system account cannot log on."

So, you should request http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=6294451to get a hotfix for this issue.

Hope this helps,

Regards