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Browse All TopicsOn a custom application we use we have a service account setup. This has been working for a year with no problems and with no apparent changes to the server (reboots, hotfixes) the account has now a problem with the service it uses.
The service starts ok. The application the service uses pushes some files to another server. I've logged on with the service account and checked the permissions are ok (which they are) and it can write/delete on the target share.
The error is below:
Event Type: Error
Event Source: Customer Application Service
Event Category: None
Event ID: 0
Date: 24/06/2009
Time: 14:18:37
User: N/A
Computer: Server
Description:
UserDomainName native call failed.
For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fw
There doesn't appear to be much help on this error code on the web so I've tried a few things.
Confirmed account was in Logon as Service policy - it is
Elevating the user rights to Domain Admin - didn't work
Resetting the password - didn't work
Change account to my domain admin account - works
Change account to another domain service account - works
Cloned my domain admin account and renamed - didn't work
Created new account - didn't work
I'm quite stumped on this issue. At the moment I'm using the other service account, although it's not ideal as users do lo on with this account and when it gets locked the service needs restarting.
The server is referencing an account on another trusted domain, but this does work as I can log on with the account.
Any ideas?
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by: Stoner79Posted on 2009-06-29 at 08:20:31ID: 24736989
Creating a local account has resolved this issue.
I didn't find the root cause and am also unable to explain why some domain accounts work where the others don't.