topic Re: Warning: cannot create C:\Program Files\splunk\etc\licenses\download-trial in Installation

Warning: cannot create C:\Program Files\splunk\etc\licenses\download-trial

ruchika997 — Wed, 13 Apr 2022 08:20:02 GMT

I am trying to run splunk for the first time using

C:\Program Files\splunk\bin>splunk start in windows cmd,

but I am getting this error Warning: cannot create "C:\Program Files\splunk\etc\licenses\download-trial"

please help 😞

jho-splunk — Tue, 26 Apr 2022 13:38:58 GMT

This is likely a permissions problem. What is the user that you are logged-in as when you do:

splunk start

And which user is the Splunk service installed under?

Cheers,

- Jo.