What's the exact error you are seeing. The network service is somewhat
generic.

The Network Service is a low level (low privilege system-maintained
local account) that is used to run some of the less priviliged, but
still important services that make a server run. The idea behind it is
to create a least privilige service account (someone who's not an admin,
but allowed to run a service)..

It's much better to use the NETWORK SERVICE, instead of the "SYSTEM
Account" for stuff that doesn't require lots of priviliges.

For instance, on Windows 2003 Servers, the NETWORK SERVICE takes care of
the %SYSTEMROOT%\system32\wbem\logs\framework.log's size and keep it
under 64KB.. But due to a error on Microsoft's behalf, the NETWORK
SERVICE doesn't even have enough rights to do that, so the file grows
uncontrollably until your server runs out of space, or you grant the
NETWORK SERVICE delete rights to that directory. :)

(There's a KB article on it.)

HTH

Steven

-----Original Message-----
From: Jessica Molina
[mailto:mssqldba-ezmlmshield-x68142293.[Email address protected]
Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2007 1:27 PM
To: LazyDBA Discussion
Subject: NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE

Can someone explain or direct me to clear documentation that explains
what this login is?

The login is failing, so I would like to know the impact of this and
what may not be happening on the SQL server due to it's repeated
failure.



Thanks,
Jessica





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