Hi all,
I have an issue with SharePoint search.
The situation
The server is installed with
SharePoint on a farm with 2 servers.
A new app pool is created and that app pool is using a domain account called moss_service.
moss_service is set
to be in
the administrator group in both server.
moss_service is also set
to be
the db_creator in
the content database.
When I checked it initially,
the search's default content access account is using another different account, I changed that
to be using moss_service account.
I didn't do IIS reset because this is a production server, they dont want frequent iis reset.
Strangely, checking
the services.msc under "office sharepoint server search"
the account is still using an old one. (and apparently it's only running on 1 server,
the other server is not running) I then
change that
to the following:
domain\moss_service with
the password.
and then I rerun
the crawl.
How do I diagnose
the issue
Basically everytime I
change something I restart
the crawl and then check
the event viewer. Multiple things come out but
the following is
the major ones:
The start address cannot be
crawled.
The password for
the content
access account cannot be decrypted
because it was stored with different
credentials. Re-type
the password for
the account used
to crawl this
content. (0x80042406)
Performance monitoring cannot be
initialized for
the gatherer object,
because
the counters are not loaded or
the shared memory object cannot be
opened. This only affects availability
of
the perfmon counters. Restart
the
computer.
Access is denied. Check that
the
Default Content Access Account has
access
to this content, or add a crawl
rule
to crawl this content.
(0x80041205)
Crawl Logs Result
The crawl log is showing this:
The password for
the content access account cannot be decrypted because it was stored with different credentials. Re-type
the password for
the account used
to crawl this content.
I tried changing it again at service.mstsc and
the rerun
the full crawl again but then it doesn't work. I have tried entering it using
the following way:
[email protected]
and
domain\moss_service
My Questions are:
How do I fix this?
Is this
the right way
to setup
the
search?
Does
the search account has
to be
using a different domain account?
Seemed like one fix complicates
the
other,
how do I set this right?
Is it worth it
to upgrade
to sp2?
