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Old 07-18-2007   #1 (permalink)
James


 
 

Pre-authentication failed

We just added an Windows Vista Ultimate compute to our Windows 2003
domain. Now our PDC will log these failure audits every so often for
the Vista machine. Anyone have any ideas?

Pre-authentication failed:
User Name: COMPUTERNAME$
User ID: DOMAINNAME\COMPUTERNAME$
Service Name: krbtgt/DOMAINNAME.LOCAL
Pre-Authentication Type: 0x0
Failure Code: 0x19
Client Address: 192.168.1.65


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Old 11-06-2007   #2 (permalink)
ned


Vista Ultimatex32
 
 

Re: Pre-authentication failed

Hi James,

I have this problem too, just the Vista computer. Switching on this computer generates 4 loggings on the PDC. The only thing I have found out is:

"Check the User ID field. Most events generated by computer accounts are safe to ignore. Determine the reason for the authentication failure by checking Failure Code. TGT failures are usually due to a bad password or time synchronization between workstation and domain controller. If Failure Code indicates a bad password, how many failures exist for the same account? Look at the client IP address. Is an innocent user error or malicious attack indicated. If practical contact user regarding their recent logon attempts."

In other words, in our case it's safe to ignore these failure messages. What I don't quite understand is that there is no real solution or workaround, if a message is safe to ignore why log it in the first place.

Anyhow, I'll keep looking and post it when I find out how to solve this one.
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