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No mapping between account names and security IDs
When installing a windows service, using installutil, it prompted for a username, and password, and
since my Administrator user didn’t have a password, I got the following error:
System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception: No mapping between account names and security IDs was done
After reading a few posts, I found a handy tip to solve this
Add this to the ProjectInstaller.cs file (in InitializeComponent)
this.serviceProcessInstaller1.Account = System.ServiceProcess.ServiceAccount.LocalSystem;
Et viola, it installs without prompting for a password.
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Network Programming in .NET 
Thanks, Thanks, Thanks, Thanks, Thanks… You have made my day.
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Many thanks for your top tip.
Lee
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If you enter this line of code, you can take out this other two..
“this.serviceProcessInstaller.User”
“this.serviceProcessInstaller.Password”
Really good tip!!!
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Worked like a bomb……SWEEEEETTTTTT!!!
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Thanks for your tip and to Juan as well 🙂 This saved me a lot of head scratching!
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Thanks for your tip. It’ s worked 🙂
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Thank you brother. You saved my weekend.
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