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Audit Failure, Credential Validation 4776


The logon events for the same are successful. The audit failure problem is with only 4776 events. Can someone help to resolve this? The avmgr is domain account. Same is used for accessing ms sql server database.

Audit Failure:

Log Name: Security Source: Microsoft-Windows-Security-Auditing Date: 8/7/2013 4:17:06 AM Event ID: 4776 Task Category: Credential Validation Level: Information Keywords: Audit Failure User: N/A Computer: abc.xyz.pqr Description: The computer attempted to validate the credentials for an account.

Authentication Package: MICROSOFT_AUTHENTICATION_PACKAGE_V1_0 Logon Account: avmgr Source Workstation: abc Error Code: 0xc0000064 Event Xml:

<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
  <System>
    <Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-Security-Auditing" Guid="{54849625-5478-4994-A5BA-3E3B0328C30D}" />
    <EventID>4776</EventID>
    <Version>0</Version>
    <Level>0</Level>
    <Task>14336</Task>
    <Opcode>0</Opcode>
    <Keywords>0x8010000000000000</Keywords>
    <TimeCreated SystemTime="2013-08-06T22:47:06.052490200Z" />
    <EventRecordID>9460344</EventRecordID>
    <Correlation />
    <Execution ProcessID="540" ThreadID="2996" />
    <Channel>Security</Channel>
    <Computer>abc.xyz.pqr</Computer>
    <Security />
  </System>
  <EventData>
    <Data Name="PackageName">MICROSOFT_AUTHENTICATION_PACKAGE_V1_0</Data>
    <Data Name="TargetUserName">avmgr</Data>
    <Data Name="Workstation">abc</Data>
    <Data Name="Status">0xc0000064</Data>
  </EventData>
</Event>

Solution

  • The famous err.exe tool tells us: for hex 0xc0000064 / decimal -1073741724 : STATUS_NO_SUCH_USER ntstatus.h The specified user does not exist. 1 matches found for "0xc0000064"

    You might specify the account as xyz.pqr\avmgr or [email protected] instead.