Re: Invalid username specified

"Magnus Hagander" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.db.postgresql.devel.win32
Message-ID <[email protected]>
>My login is an NT domain account. I thought the postgres account was 
>established as local. I changed nothing on the service 
>configuration screen 
>so I didn't knowinly make it a domain account.

Then it's a local account. That's default on everything except Domain
Controllers (which don't have local accounts)

>I have local admin rights and can delete the local postgres 
>user but have NO admin rights at the domain level.

That just confirms it.


>I have also tried to use postgres2 (and other numbers for 
>unused names) as 
>the service account and had the same problem.
>
>Why would a local account have towait for domain replication?

That's a very good question :-) In theory anything account-related is
affected by Group Policy settings, but I have no idea which one would be
affecting this one. But everything points to something domain related.

//Magnus

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