Can I make a service log on as NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE?

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Jeff Johnson [MVP: VB]

Subject basically says it all. I have a service that needs to access two
external boxes but doesn't need a specific domain account to do what it
needs to do on those boxes. (One is an SQL Server which it will hit with a
standard SQL Server login, the other is an SMTP server which it will hit
with CDOSYS.) I could of course create a domain account for this purpose,
but I'd like to avoid that if possible.
 
Subject basically says it all. I have a service that needs to access two
external boxes but doesn't need a specific domain account to do what it
needs to do on those boxes. (One is an SQL Server which it will hit with a
standard SQL Server login, the other is an SMTP server which it will hit
with CDOSYS.) I could of course create a domain account for this purpose,
but I'd like to avoid that if possible.
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Perhaps I should expound: if this is possible, how do I determine the
password for the account?
 
That account doesn't have a password. The solution is to run as a domain
account.
 
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