Because the Siebel Gateway Name Server and Siebel Server are implemented as services (on Microsoft Windows-based operating systems) or daemon processes (on UNIX-based operating systems), the processes must run on behalf of an account with certain administrative rights.
On Microsoft Windows-based operating systems, we must ensure that a system user account with the following characteristics is provisioned on each machine that will host the Siebel services and the Siebel File System before the Siebel installation process is started:
The service owner account must either be part of a Windows domain or identical local accounts will have to be created locally
Usernames and passwords must not contain any spaces
The password policy must not be set to "User must change password at next logon" (uncheck this value) and must be set to "Password never expires" (check this value)
The service owner account must be a member of the Administrators group.
The service owner account...