Painful installation of RS 2005 on Win2K

Ok I'm am going through a rather painful experience of installing Reporting Services on:

Windows 2000 SP4

MDAC 2.8

.Net Framework 2.0

IIS 5.0

SQL Server 2005 Developer

I have installed RS 2005 on Windows 2003, and seen it installed on XP no problems. However this is a nightmare.

RS goes ahead and installs - note that there is no Network/Local service option on the service accounts just Local system or the domain account option. I have tried using the Local system and tried using the NT AUTHORITY/SYSTEM.

After the installation I go to the Reporting Services Configuration Tool, where I have crosses on:

- Server Status

- Report Server Virtual Directory

- Report Manager Virtual Directory

- Web Service Identity

- Database Setup

I- nitialization

So I go to report server/manager and click on "New.." on each to create the virtual directories and check "apply default settings" and click "Apply", all goes well

Web Service Identity I cannot change so I go to:

C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL.3\Reporting Services\ReportServer\rsreportserver.config

and change the web service account to:

<WebServiceAccount><<MACHINE NAME>>\ASPNET</WebServiceAccount>

When I restart the reporting services service I no longer see a warning in the reporting services log file about the WebServiceAccount

I go back to the Reporting Services Config Tool, where I have crosses on the following:

Web Service Identity

Database Setup

Initialization

The Web Service Identity stays greyed out...

I go to Database Setup:

connect to the server

select the reportingserver database

leave it set as service credentials

Click "Apply"

and I get the most vague of all error messages:

"There was a failure applying your change

A virtual directory must first be created before performing this operation"

What virtual directory, where?

I look in the log files..nothing. I look in the event viewer...and...nothing.

I look on here...

http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=628231&SiteID=1

http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1682492&SiteID=1

http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=493194&SiteID=1

Either unanswered or there is the one answer but it is not relevant in this case.

Can someone please provide some advice before I lose my sanity?

Thanks in advance

Ok since I got no responses, after trial and error I found that the following process worked....

1. run SQLSERVER2005 setup from the command line with setup SKUUPGRADE=1

2. Install RS

3. open the RS config tool, create the virtual directories for server/manager

4. run rsconfig -c -s <SQLSERVERNAME> -d <<RS DB Name>> -a Windows from the command line (for a service account) see http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms162837.aspx for more.

5. Edit the rsreportserver.config file add the WebServiceAccount <WebServiceAccount><<MACHINE NAME>>\ASPNET</WebServiceAccount>

6. Add ASPNET to the group SQLServer2005ReportingServicesWebServiceUser$<<INSTANCE_NAME>>

7. Give ASPNET or the above group acess to the RS DB

8. Add administrators as Content Managers via either the browser localhost/reports or in SQL Server Management Studio

9. Reboot

I have no idea why the RS configuration tool does not perform in the same way as the command line rsconfig? But running it from the command line fixes the problem