Getting errors about system administrator accounts when trying to install SQL 2022 on Windows Server Standard 2022 Core edition

Question

In the two domain/username fields I have tried a combination of local/administrator, servername/localadmin, and domain/domainadmin




Exception type: Microsoft.SqlServer.Chainer.Infrastructure.InputSettingValidationException
    Message:
        \domain\username - User or group does not exists.
    HResult : 0x84b40000
        FacilityCode : 1204 (4b4)
        ErrorCode : 0 (0000)
    Data:
      SQL.Setup.FailureCategory = InputSettingValidationFailure
      DisableWatson = true
    Stack:
        at Microsoft.SqlServer.Chainer.Infrastructure.InputSettingService.LogAllValidationErrorsAndThrowFirstOne(ValidationState vs)
        at Microsoft.SqlServer.Configuration.SetupExtension.ValidateFeatureSettingsAction.ExecuteAction(String actionId)
        at Microsoft.SqlServer.Chainer.Infrastructure.Action.Execute(String actionId, TextWriter errorStream)
        at Microsoft.SqlServer.Setup.Chainer.Workflow.ActionInvocation.<>c__DisplayClass2_1.<ExecuteActionWithRetryHelper>b__0()
        at Microsoft.SqlServer.Setup.Chainer.Workflow.ActionInvocation.ExecuteActionHelper(ActionWorker workerDelegate)
    Inner exception type: System.ApplicationException
        Message:
                \domain\username - User or group does not exists.
        HResult : 0x80131600
SetupTelemetry: Writing Telemetry to Datastore
The following error occurred:
\cvtc.org\ccody-a - User or group does not exists.

Error result: -2068578304
Result facility code: 1204
Result error code: 0

Please review the summary.txt log for further details

Answer 1

\cvtc.org\ccody-a looks wrong. Shouldn't that be cvtc.org\ccody-a without the first backslash?