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Login failed for domain account that is local administrator

  • July 19, 2012 at 4:26 am

    #392778

    Wierd issue I'm having. I have a domain account that is a member of the local admins windows group on the SQL server, but when I log onto the server and launch SSMS using Windows Authentication, it fails with the following "Login Failed" message:

    Date7/19/2012 9:41:23 AM

    LogSQL Server (Current - 7/19/2012 12:30:00 AM)

    SourceLogon

    Message

    Error: 18456, Severity: 14, State: 11.

    The server is running the following:

    Windows 2008 R2

    SQL Server 2005 Standard SP3

    BUILTIN\Administrators is also a member of the Sysadmin Server Role.

    However, it does work correctly if I add the account explicitly to the database...

    Has anyone seen this behavior before?

    Thanks in advance,

    Mike

  • July 19, 2012 at 5:57 am

    #1514773

    the full error message , and not just the error number, would give us more information.

    the message gets substituted with helpful, specific info.

    select * from sys.messages where message_id=18456

    Login failed for user '%.*ls'.%.*ls%.*ls

    Lowell

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