--- On Wed, 2/25/09, Bill Herbert <wgh8089@earthlink.net> wrote:
> From: Bill Herbert <wgh8089@earthlink.net>
> Subject: [GENERAL] Problem setting up PostgreSQL
> To: "pgsql-general@postgresql.org" <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
> Date: Wednesday, February 25, 2009, 4:30 AM
> Hello,
>
> I am attempting to install PostgreSQL. I downloaded
> 8.2.12-1zip from ftp9.us.postgresql.org and then followed
> the installation instructions outlined in
> http://pginstaller.projects.postgresql.org. I am installing
> on a Windows XP machine with an NTFS file system. I opened
> the zip contents from a temporary folder with all internet
> security functions disabled.
>
> When I reached step 11 in the instructions, I received an
> error message: "Internal account look-up failure. No
> mapping between account names and security ID was
> done." I retried several times using a new download
> from a different mirror, but always received the same error
> message.
>
> I searched for and found a prior reference to this message
> (Sept 04 2008) but ws unable to retrieve the full message
> and response. Can you offer any suggestions for dealing
> with this problem?
>
> Thanks,
> Bill Herbert
>
>
>
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check if you have postgres user create in the account domain
