Serv-U 15.3.2 Error Start Service. Error 1068

Hello, from which type of Administrative account the installer ran? Thanks

I can confirm the behavior for a Windows 10 Pro system (update installed with Domain administrator account). The error message starting the service stated something about dependencies not started, but there are no dependencies for that service.

Changing the login account solved the behaviour here as well.

Best greetings from Germany
Olaf

Hi.

Local adm. Installation in the same environment as 15.3.1

Based on investigation of the reported problem, we would conclude the following suggestions:

1. It looks that Serv-U Host is set up such a way that starting a service (in our case it's Serv-U) under NT Authority\NetworkService account is not allowed. It may be a special constrain applied for security reason.
2. If 1. is true, then we advise against relying on NT Authority\NetworkService. In this case, we would suggest manually switching Serv-U to run under either the previously used Local System account or another specially created or chosen one. Of course, the NT Authority\NetworkService can be chosen as well. However, it may require manual creating additional special conditions that allow starting Serv-U. Such Conditions cannot be "programmed" because their possible types, number and combinations make the challenge not feasible.
3. In conclusion, so far we don't see any errors in Serv-U due to the reported issue. On the contrary, we see that Serv-U cannot be used with restrictions, possibly imposed for security reasons. Actually, this is exactly what we wanted: to block to use Serv-U to bypass protection.

As for 3rd - I had to roll back the virtual machine from backup, since SERV-U somehow lost the customer domain in the process of switching back from Local System (which caused the server identity go away) to Network service and back to Local System.

Backup with switchback to Network service seemed to run, but the FTP users failed to login. So I had to export the server ID, change to Local System again and import the server ID.

Best greetings from Germany
Olaf

Hello together,

I've done some investigation in this task, because I had the same problem yesterday by updating my Serv-U from 15.3.1 to 15.3.2.

For Testing, I installed two fresh Server-2019-VM: one in english and on in german. As I assumed, the problem is language-related:

german Server 2019

english Server 2019

Perhaps, this information can help the Serv-U-Developers. Actually, I was not able to start the server with with "german" Netzwerkdienst, but I will test a little bit more ;)

best regards,

Markus

My problem occurs in Portuguese.

Hello Olafe
in the list of services, you changed to local account to start the serv-u service ?