I have a single server running SharePoint 3.0 on WS2003 Sp2 not on a domain. My search service stopped working so I just went in to central admin and hit stop, then hit start. I soon found out this is not the way to do this process. I now can not get the search service to start again. I have tried everything I can think of, and nothing works it changes status to Starting but never gets to started. I have to go in with "stsadm -o spsearch -action stop" from the command prompt to stop it. I am using the Local service account for the service and the content accounts. Can anyone help me?
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Anything in the event logs that could point to an issue?
Best preactice is to have a local account that is a member of the local administrators group for stuff like search So maybe SPSEARCH for the search account. We had a SharePoint system that used one account for everything and then when we had to troubleshoot, we could not easily tell what was having the issue. Can you create a local account and add it to the Local Administrator group and use that for the service?