I am building a SharePoint test farm with SharePoint server 2007 Enterprise based on Windows Server 2008 R2. There are 3 different virtual machines (Hyper-V), all in the same domain, UCTEST. When I installed SharePoint and ran the configuration wizard, I entered a domain account (svc_sp) as the main farm / central account, which worked perfectly.
Now, in Central Admin, I try to go through the administrators tasks list, and in the assign services to servers task I try starting the Windows SharePoint Services Search service. I enter 2 separate user accounts for the search and content access parts. The user's exist and are in the same organisational unit as the main farm account. But when I click start I get an Event ID 4625, audit failure.
The error message is the following:
An account failed to log on.
Subject:
Security ID: UCTEST\Administrator
Account Name: Administrator
Account Domain: UCTEST
Logon ID: 0x98828
Logon Type: 3
Account For Which Logon Failed:
Security ID: NULL SID
Account Name: svc_sp_wsscontent
Account Domain: UCTEST
Failure Information:
Failure Reason: Unknown user name or bad password.
Status: 0xc000006d
Sub Status: 0xc000006a
Process Information:
Caller Process ID: 0x364
Caller Process Name: C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv\w3wp.exe
Network Information:
Workstation Name: UCTEST-UC01
Source Network Address: -
Source Port: -
Detailed Authentication Information:
Logon Process: Advapi
Authentication Package: Negotiate
Transited Services: -
Package Name (NTLM only): -
Key Length: 0
P.S. Thinking it could be SQL related i have made all service account securityadmin and dbcreator on SQL Server (2008 SP1)
P.P.S. All users needed are added to the "logon as batch" / "logon as service" in the local security group policy.