I am logged in as a domain account user i.e., domainname\user on the Sql Server machine. I then use my windows authentication to login to sql query analyzer and...

The services are all set to "Log On As" - 'Local System Account". The NTFS permissions look good too.

Any other insights.

Thanks

Thanks but it did not work. I logged in as myself and I see the service was started by me (left hand corner of object explorer shows logged in...