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I'm trying to install SQL Server 2008 development server on my local machine as administrator.
During the installation I receive this error, any idea how to solve it?thanks
[Error Message]
The credentials you provided for the SQL Server Agent service are invalid. To continue, provide a valid account and password for the SQL
Server Agent service.
[Details]
Microsoft.SqlServer.Configuration.Agent.InputValidationException: The credentials you provided for the SQL Server Agent service are
invalid. To continue, provide a valid account and password for the SQL
Server Agent service.
Use the credential that you use to login to PC. Username can be searched by Clicking in sequence
Advanced -> Find -> Choose your Username -> (e.g. JOHNSMITH_HP/John)
Password must be same as your windows login password
There you go !!
I solved using as credential built-in accounts as the NetworkService
this article point me out in the right direction
http://www.sqlcoffee.com/SQLServer2008_0013.htm
Under the "Account Name" Drop Box choose Browse.
Type the user name that you used to log in to windows on the
"Enter the object name to select" and then click "Check Names".
Click "Ok".
Under "Password" just type the password that you used for windows login.
In my case it was more of a Microsoft bug, than an actual issue. I installed under the Administrator login and used strong password btw but I was still getting this error constantly.
I tried to install with Windows credential without entering the password, but that did not go through either. Was getting the same error.
Then I cleared all password textboxes manually and copies the correct password in each text box. Hit enter, and it went through.
The error was most likely misleading.
There seem to be several problems that can cause this symptom. To tell them apart, one needs to look in the setup log files in %PROGRAMFILES%\Microsoft SQL Server\[versionnumber]\Setup Bootstrap\Log, probably Detail.txt.
According to this article, when running the installer as a local administrator and trying to use a domain account for the service, it may claim that the credentials are invalid because the local administrator does not have sufficient permissions in the domain to look up the service account's SID. This was the main problem I was encountering, and it might be what was affecting the original poster a year and a half ago.
I've had this error as a result of trying to use a cloned VM that had the same SID as the domain. The two options to fix it were: sysprep (or rebuild) the database server OR dcpromo the DC down and back up to change the domain SID.
I found I had to be logged in as a domain user.
It gave me this error when I was logged in as local machine Administrator and trying to add domain service account.
Logged in as domain user (but admin on machine) and it accepted the credentials.
In my case password was expired. Change the password and try the step again.
Well I have been battling to understand why, when at the Account section of the installation of a second node, the system will not accept the password I used to log in. I have been scratching my head - reading every post under the sun all to no avail.
I did notice that some service accounts were given as service.instname.instno#FDNdomain.com and others were given as DOMAIN\service.instname.instno (the latter being the Win2000 version)
I also noticed comments about strength of password so I thought - I can do that so I changed the password to a much higher strength and RDC in to the server - with new password and thought - best to update the services on the existing node first. I stopped the service, clicked on password and pasted in from the clipboard - (can't go wrong eh?) ha ha says Windows.. Got ya.. it wouldn't accept the password - that I just logged in with. I clicked on browse to select the service account and VOILA! the account name changed to the DOMAIN\user version and readily accepted the password. I then repeated the exercise on the other service. I then found that the node installation would continue (after backing up and forward through the process) to pick up the new name format and accepted the passwords without complaint.
I think the moral of this experience is to use the wizards and select through the "browse" button rather than manually entering the service name.
I hope my experience saves someone else the pain I went through.
Still Confused
I had a domain account with a strong password, but it didn´t work, then I used Network Service account. I tried to change it on SQL Server Configuration Manager after installation and it worked.
Taking SQL Server cluster role offline-Online on node 1 worked for me.
I had a VM that was server 2012 and I had to change the nic to VMXNET 3. It wasn't connecting to the domain fast enough for the services to start I guess.
the button 'Use same account' below thee main window will fill in all the textboxes automatically. this worked fpr me.
You might encounter one of these three problems:
Password Policy Violation, find valuable information here: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms161959.aspx
Password not starting with a "character"
Domain Service User's account might be locked.
A blog post with the summary for all three possible problems might be found here:
https://cms4j.wordpress.com/2016/11/29/0x851c0001-the-credentials-you-provided-for-the-sqlserveragent-service-is-invalid/
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I have created a new SQL Database on Azure, and have copied the connection string directly from the Azure Portal.
On my .NET application, when I am trying to run 'Update-Database' command in Package Manager Console to commit the migration, I receive the following error:
Error Number:18456,State:1,Class:14 Login failed for user
'benhayward'.
Extra Information:
- I have changed my database admin password.
- I have confirmed that the log-in credentials are correct.
- I am on the Azure free trial.
Any advice or assistance on this would be greatly appreciated.
Ok a slightly embarrassing solution, but the reason this wasn't working is because of the curly brackets surrounding the password, as LeonYue suggested.
I had the same issue. The problem was that I had two entirelly different connection strings with the same name in different config files. The right one in app settings was being overwritten by another connection string in my user secrets. As soon as I deleted connection string from my secrets, everything went fine without any errors. Hope my solution will help the others
My windows service is using integrated authentication and running under Local System account and got the below exception.
The target principal name is incorrect. Cannot generate SSPI context.
The SQL Server Service is running under domain admin user e.g. "domain\administrator". If I change the SQL Server Service to run under Local System account then it fixes the above error.
Can anyone explain why it's happening like this? We have an InstallShield wizard which installs our application on client side i don't know how we can handle this behavior through the wizard. Also changing the user for SQL Server Service is not realistic as well because the client may not allow it.
Note: Once when my windows service works fine and I revert the SQL Server run under the admin account my service runs fine. I guess there are some permissions are set to the local system account.
Before it, I ran the Kerberos which generated the following script to run and fixed the issue. After this it was not required to change the user for SQL Server Service.
SetSPN -d "MSSQLSvc/FQDN" "domain\machine$"
SetSPN -s "MSSQLSvc/FQDN" "domain\administrator"
Please explain why it's happening and what is the best way to handle the situation?
When running under the Local System account, sql-server registers an spn for every service it controls automatcially up to active-directory, and attempts to unregister them when the service shuts down. The Local System account has the ability to communicate over the network as the computer account and thus can indicate to Active Directory as to when to make changes about itself and the SPN SQL Service wants to register. When you change the SQL Server account over to an AD domain user account, the Local System account immediately loses it's ability to control this; therefore you must manually delete the existing SPNs previously registered for that SQL service by Local System before registering new SPNs. You should now notice why its nice that the SQL server script helpfully calls for a deletion of the old SPN followed by the registration of a new one in order to prevent issues. When this isn't done properly - you'll get an authentication error when the kerberos clients obtain a ticket for the old invalid SPN - because it was never deleted and any Kerberos-aware service will always reject a ticket for a wrong SPN. After you make SPN changes, always be sure to restart the SQL Server service and right after that if you’re testing with a user have that user log out and log back in. This answers your main question here.
Please see this Microsoft document for further reading on the subject: Register a Service Principal Name for Kerberos Connections. There's also a very good youtube video on this exact problem, that's where I learned about it and how to resolve it. Ignore "SSRS" in the title, I've watched the entirety and the guidance applies to any and all services by SQL which have SPNs.
You had a secondary question at the very end of your question regarding what is the best way to handle the situation. If you're talking about solving it programmatically that would be very difficult to answer as all environments are different in some way and you will come across SQL instances running in all sorts of different security contexts. In an online forum like this you would probably get different answers from different people. If this were your only question, I think it would get closed by the moderators for "being primarily opinion-based" and likely to attract spam answers. I would suggest you incorporate some kind of guidance about the problem in some form of a Readme file that you should package with the InstallShield wizard.
Side note: I think you should add the kerberos tag to this question - as SPNs are relevant to Kerberos only - and not to any other authentication protocol.
So I'm trying to setup Railo and I want to add a datasource.
For the database I'm using Microsoft SQL server Management Studio.
But now I've run into the classical problem: "Login failed for user 'sa'. ClientConnectionId:afd80ac2-0744-4a7d-a9f7-083d93adee0d"
What I've done so far:
With the SQL Server Configuration Manager in the TCP/IP settings I enabled the IPs I had to.
I set the password for the user 'sa' in MSSQL and I added a user mapping for the table I want to use.
I made the user 'sa' the owner of the DB i want to connect to
Restarted the SQL service, my computer and Railo multiple times.
I'm pretty much out of ideas.
After Leigh mentioned in the comments to look at my logs it had the following message: "Login failed for user 'max'. Reason: Failed to open the explicitly specified database 'test'. [CLIENT: 127.0.0.1]"
I then tried to make a connection without mentioning a database and that worked.
I would also point to Leigh's answer here which explains how to turn Mixed-Mode authentication on, as this can also cause this error. Since the cause of this isn't on Railo/Lucee's end, this issue still arises in 2018.
I just don't want a useful answer to get lost to history, nor plagiarize an answer I barely found.
I was looking everywhere and still have not found clear answer to this simple question:
Is it possible to use SQL authentication with LocalDB, i.e. is it possible to use connection string containing
Integrated Security=False
?
Yes, last I tried it was possible. Just follow the steps from this MDSN article.
Keep in mind that it will still be user instance, running under the account that started it, and will be shut down shall the account log out. Also no remote access.
My scheduled reports in SQL server won't run. I checked the logs and found the job that was failing. The error message in the log was:
'EXECUTE AS LOGIN' failed for the requested login 'NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK
SERVICE'. The step failed.
I'm using SQL authentication for the report so it shouldn't be issues with the permissions to the data. No sheduled reports on the server will run.
I found the answer here:
http://www.themssforum.com/SVCS/Unable-execute/
Apperently there was something wrong with the login for 'NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE' and it wouldn't run the jobs it owned properly. Anyone understand why this might have happened?
Can you check the permissions for your Network Service account? Specifically make sure they have the "Act as part of the OS" permission. If I'm reading the error message correctly, it looks like the NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE account failed to execute as a logged on user. It doesn't look like it ever got to the query, looks like it's failing in the Windows authentication portion, so never gets to the SQL authentication piece.
You might also check the Security Event Log in Windows. If it is an authentication problem, there might be additional information logged by the OS.
Can you hit the Web Service page (ReportService2005.asmx) for SRS with a web browser? If not, it might point to the SRS service, if you can, it might point to the scheduler service.
I seem to remeber having a similar problem a long time ago, the problem was related to accessing the smtp server to despatch the reports and was resolved by applying a patch to the server.
I'd guess you are running a non-english operating system.
Somehow, for whatever reasons, the login name for the network service is sometimes localized when the OS is translated into other languages.
Now a lot of programs expect the login name to be hard coded to "NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE" - in a German version of Windows for example the name of the account is "NT-AUTORITÄT\NETZWERKDIENST". So your program is looking for the english name, can't find it, and shows an error.
Even some Microsoft programs run into this trap and show errors like this when installed!
Just to troubleshoot, can you use a domain account rather than the builtin NetworkService account to run your service?
I also found this post that describes the same error you reported:
Maybe that solution will work for you.