Questions tagged [windows-authentication]

The tag has no usage guidance.

Filter by
Sorted by
Tagged with
0 votes
0 answers
105 views

Kerberos client authentication times out with SQL error 87

Apologies for the length of this but I'm app developer, not a SQL DBA nor network Admin, so I'm out of my area and just wanted to be sure I documented everything as well as I could. This is a problem ...
DooHickey's user avatar
0 votes
1 answer
145 views

PostgreSQL client on Windows to access PostgreSQL server on Linux using Active Directoy Kerberos authentication

TEST 1 - PostgreSQL with Active Directory authentication I have installed PotgreSQL Server v15.3 on Red Hat 8.8 and integrate PostgreSQL authentication using Active Directory. In pg_hba.conf I have ...
folow's user avatar
  • 327
3 votes
1 answer
1k views

Not Able to Enable sa Account in SQL Server 2019 Express after Login with Windows Authentication Mode

I have installed SQL Server Express 2019 on my machine and after installation, I am able to login into server using the Windows Authentication method like And as you can see the sa account has been ...
Behseini's user avatar
  • 131
2 votes
1 answer
100 views

Securing Functional/Service ID for MSSQL with Windows Authentication

I'm currently assessing a setup of Data warehouse implementation in our environment, based on the requirements: A functional/service ID to be setup to access multiple DB servers of other applications ...
nlks's user avatar
  • 21
2 votes
1 answer
10k views

The target principal name is incorrect. Cannot generate SSPI context. (Microsoft SQL Server)

we have an issue connecting remotely to SQL Server via SSMS with Azure AD users. Any attempt to log in to a SQL Server instance in AWS with Windows Authentication throws an SSPI error. We've tried the ...
JuliousGonsalves's user avatar
0 votes
1 answer
2k views

Can not login with windows authentication after changing sa and windows passwords

I changed sa and Windows administrators password successfully, I can login to server with sa without any problem, services working normally, database is not corrupted and working without any problem. ...
Yuzarsif's user avatar
1 vote
1 answer
277 views

Insert a record via VBA without SQL authentication

I maintain a SQL Server database that's used as a workflow tool for a team of a few dozen users. Those users interact with the database via an MS Access front-end and Windows Authentication. Part of ...
Allen R. Brady's user avatar
2 votes
0 answers
567 views

Did SQL Server ever add user principal name support?

I ran into an issue today where the User Principal Name was greater than 20 characters in length, so the samAccountName was capped at 20. This resulted in SQL Server not finding the user when the UPN ...
kjwhal-dfin's user avatar
2 votes
5 answers
2k views

CREATE Windows User in database for not existing domain

Is it possible to create a Windows User in the database when the domain is not accessible? I am preparing database at my dev environment outside of the targeted domain. Created user is not expected to ...
jericzech's user avatar
  • 945
0 votes
1 answer
555 views

How to setup Linked Server connect with different Domain Account with Windows Authentication

we have two SQL Server 2017 "ServerA" and "ServerB" on Windows Server 2016 in the same domain. Both SQL Server have a Login defined "mydomain\dbaccount". On ServerA we ...
Sebastian Siemens's user avatar
2 votes
0 answers
1k views

Is it possible to run SQL Server as 'NT Service\MSSQLSERVER' and EXECUTE AS a domain account?

For clarity, I'm asking how to resolve this without running SQL Server as a domain account and without making sa the database owner. In a nutshell If I install SQL Server 2019 and go with the ...
jnm2's user avatar
  • 121
0 votes
0 answers
33 views

AD groups authentication doesn't work at the console of SQL Server 2017

I come up with this. A Domain admin windows user is able to login to a SQL Server 2017 instance from any client computer, but it can not login from the console of the server. TCP/IP and Shared memory ...
Roman Peralta's user avatar
0 votes
1 answer
58 views

SQL Server 2017 on RHEL Linux with IDM for AD authentication

We are using Red Hat IDM to authenticate AD users to SQL Server. Users can login successfully to SQL Server with SSMS and SQL CMD with AD Authentication. But running some elevated commands from SSMS ...
Amit Saxena's user avatar
0 votes
0 answers
43 views

Login MSSQL using Active Directory account from local Windows account [duplicate]

Due to Coronavirus, we on my company are working from home. I had setup a virtual machine and am using VPN to connect to company's intranet. It happens that we use company's AD account to log in ...
Hikari's user avatar
  • 1,533
0 votes
1 answer
28 views

"Could not find login" failures for remote LocalSystem that exists

I imagine security changed in some way for Windows 2016, but I'm unable to determine what exactly. For context: We have a variety of remote clients that handle data processing within a (non-SQL) data ...
Bill's user avatar
  • 1
0 votes
1 answer
341 views

How to prevent logins using Windows Authentication in SQL Server?

SQL Server supports creating logins using SQL, Windows, certificates and asymmetric keys. Is it possible to remove the option of creating logins with Windows authentication (and just allow SQL ...
Londoner 19's user avatar
1 vote
0 answers
84 views

SSMS Connect to remote SQL instance with Windows Authentication

I have a remote SQL instance (Microsoft SQL Server 2016 (SP2-CU3) (KB4458871) - 13.0.5216.0 (X64) I can connect to the instance fine locally on the box through SSMS using both Windows and SQL ...
medina's user avatar
  • 197
3 votes
2 answers
937 views

SSMS cannot connect remote server by IP through Windows authentication

I'm trying to connect a remote server by IP,port via Windows authentication. It will end out with the following error Connection Timeout Expired. The timeout period elapsed while attempting to ...
Circle Hsiao's user avatar
10 votes
2 answers
2k views

Locked my sa user out

So I was trying to change some settings in my Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio 2019. I change the login mode from mixed (Windows and SQL authentication) to only Windows and now I am not able to ...
Nano's user avatar
  • 139
1 vote
3 answers
3k views

NTLM vs Kerberos authentication - questions

We have 4 servers, all are members of the same Domain: 1. SQL 2012 on Windows Server 2016 2. SQL 2012 on Windows Server 2012 3. SQL 2017 on Windows Server 2016 4. SQL 2017 on Windows Server 2016 I ...
Aleksey Vitsko's user avatar
1 vote
1 answer
130 views

Can I query from two databases if my web application is connected to one database?

I have a local database, DB1, that I created and is connected to my web application. My web application takes in stored procedures from DB1 and queries them. My application connects to SQL Server ...
KamSami's user avatar
  • 113