Sunday, February 19, 2012

Failure Audit on domain controller account

I have SQL 2005 installed in a virtual (ESX) environment with a separate DC. Every minute or so an event shows up in the Application Event Log that says:

Type: Failure Audit

User: dgtest\dc1$

Computer: sql1

Source: MSSQLSERVER

Category: (4)

Event ID: 18456

Description:

Login failed for user 'dgtest\dc1$'. [Client: <ip address>]

Data includes: SQL1 master

Any idea what is causing this and how to fix it?

Thanks,
Mindy

Hi Mindy,

I have the same problem. I am running VS2005, SQL2005 in Win XP SP2. I am trying to install Biztalk Server 2006 and I get this error in the event viewer. Due to this error I cannot configure the Groups in Biztalk Server. Do you have any fix?

Thanks,

Sundar

|||Mindy, does this user exist on your box sql1?|||

Has any one found the solution for this problem

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I found the solution. It happens when you are specifying BizTalk Server Administrators and BizTalk Server Operators group as the local group. In this case the configuration qizard will try to find these user groups on the SQL machine. If the SQL machine is different from the BizTalk machine, it wil generate error.

To resolve this, just make these 2 groups as domain user groups and change these groups settings within the configuration wizard of BizTalk to domain groups.

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Sorry for the delayed response, I did not receive the thread notifications.

The user is actually the domain controller (dc1), not a regular user.

In my installation, there is no Biztalk, only MOSS.

The configuration of the environment (a test/dev environment) has changed significantly since I first posted, and the issue has gone away. Have other issues now, but they are not important ;-)

Mindy

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