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>First, thank you for your help. I thought I did try the following line in my code:
>>>EventLog.CreateEventSource(source, logName);
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>You're welcome. But I left out the most important part, silly me (and obviously nobody tried it, otherwise I would have heard about it! <g>).
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>The CreateEventSource still needs to be run, which you tried yourself, but it needs to be done under some sort of valid authentication. The part that does that, in the code I posted, was left out. Sorry! I call a LogonUser() method, but I forgot to include that. Here it is:
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>// Using this api to get an accessToken of specific Windows User by its user name and password
>[DllImport("advapi32.dll", CharSet = CharSet.Unicode, SetLastError = true)]
>static public extern bool LogonUser(string userName, string domain, string passWord, int logonType, int logonProvider, ref IntPtr accessToken);
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>Now it should work. As I said, this only needs to be run once.
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>~~Bonnie
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Thank you for the additional information.
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