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Universal Forwarder Installation- Error: No logon servers are available to service the logon request.

Bill_B
Communicator

I'm trying to install "splunkforwarder-6.0-182611-x64-release" on a Windows 2008 R2 server. While going through the install wizard I receive this error after selecting "Remote Windows Data" and entering domain, user, password.

"No logon servers are available to service the logon request."

I can ping the DNS.

Any help is appreciated. Thank you.

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linu1988
Champion

Hello Bill,
That explains, with your current level of authentication the installer will not be able to find the server that is why the error. if you have any service account which has access to both the server, try installing the splunk forwarder and then configure the inputs in WMI.conf later.

Thanks

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Bill_B
Communicator

I don't have access to logon locally, so I can't test that.

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lukejadamec
Super Champion

It sounds like a domain controller access issue. Can you log on locally to that server with the domain credentials you used to configure the forwarder?

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