SMS 2003 SP3 - Secondary site install fails with logon failure

[Vinnie]

Hello,

This is going to seem trivial, but we've spent the whole day on it.
We've setup an SMS 2003 SP3 primary site, and are trying to setup a
secondary site directly from the primary console.
We are in standard security mode, so we've created 2 services accounts, one
for each site. Each service account is a local admin of its own server.
(actually, after all the failures that we've encountered, every server has
now both service accounts, and both machine accounts in its local
administrators, + the service accounts are domain admin, but still no luck)

The site install fails always on the same error :
The bootstrap package copies fine onto the secondary server, but the sender
fails to start the service with teh following message:
#########
Installing service to Path C:\SMS_BOOTSTRAP.EXE, UserName ad-acv\smssecsvc2k3
Created job to monitor the installation of secondary site SSS
Cannot start SMS_BOOTSTRAP service on server sms2003sec, Win32 Error = 1069
#########

When we try to start the SMS_BOOTSTRAP service, it also fails with a logon
failure, then when we type again the password in the "Log on" pane of the
SMS_BOOTSTRAP service properties, it starts fine.

It just seems like the password passed in the Bootstrap package is wrong,
but believe me, we've checked a million times that we're typing it correctly
in the "New Secondary site" wizard.

Any ideas anyone?

Cheers,
Vincent

[Samson Li [MSFT]]

Did you grant the "Run as service" permission for your account?

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