Re: Erratic access to network resources from service

From: Old Fart (oldfart_at_newsgroups.nospam)
Date: 09/02/04 

Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2004 08:40:25 -0700

Thanks. I'll check this out. Searching for nltest did yield some
interesting information.

"Eugene Gershnik" <gershnik@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:uN3MXONkEHA.3968@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> Old Fart wrote:
> > I have a service running under the LocalSystem account in a Win2K
> > domain.
> > It accesses network resources (shares and named pipes) on other
> > computers in the domain. The majority of the time this works fine,
> > but frequently the service starts getting access denied (error 5) on
> > the network resources. Ten minutes later it may start working again.
> > I've not yet determined a pattern as to what triggers this situation.
> >
> > When things are working correctly, I see the expected logins from
> > domain\computername$ in the security log of the servers. When things
> > are broken, I see anonymous logins from the computer where my service
> > is running in the security logs of the servers.
> >
> > Is there anything my service can do when it gets the access denied
> > errors to refresh the credentials of the computer running the
> > service? Any other ideas as to what may be going on?
>
> Maybe (and this is just a WAG) your machine looses secure channel to the
> domain controller. There is a resource kit utility nltest.exe that can
> diagnose these situations. If this is indeed the problem there is an
> undocumented API that can fix it but it is better to eliminate the cause.
>
> --
> Eugene
>
>

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