World Wide Web Publishing Service fails

Our World Wide Web Publishing Servce is set up to log on as Local System
Account. But when we start the service (or start it manually with
C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe -k iissvcs) it fails with a Failure Audit in
the Event Log showing that there was an attempt to logon (via Advapi) with a
completely different username (not Local System Account). We once had a
user with this other username, but we can not find a single service that
lists that username now.

Does anyone have any suggestions on how to track this down?

Thanks.

A clarification: we don't get the error when we enter
C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe -k iissvcs (although it still doesn't work).
We do get the error when try iisreset /restart.


"Dennis Grinberg" <dgrin_bli_luef DeleteThis @bli_luef.bellatlantic.net> wrote in
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 > Our World Wide Web Publishing Servce is set up to log on as Local System
 > Account. But when we start the service (or start it manually with
 > C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe -k iissvcs) it fails with a Failure Audit
 > in the Event Log showing that there was an attempt to logon (via Advapi)
 > with a completely different username (not Local System Account). We once
 > had a user with this other username, but we can not find a single service
 > that lists that username now.
 >
 > Does anyone have any suggestions on how to track this down?
 >
 > Thanks.
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