Hello Ranjith,
There's nothing to apologize and to worry. It's okay.
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Sincerely,
John DeV
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Eventid 40960 : The failure code from authentication protocol Kerberos was "No authority could be contacted for authentication from Workstation
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Anonymous
Hi Team,
We are experiencing the event id 40960 from half of our Windows 10 workstations - ( These workstations are spread across different sites ) . Though the sites were having local domain controller before , due to some issues , these local DC's were removed and now the workstation from these sites are connected to the main domain controller.
"The failure code from authentication protocol Kerberos was "No authority could be contacted for authentication from couple of site Workstation"
The user can log on to the workstation , but unable to get the mapped drives workings , GPO not getting applied etc.
Even if we browse from these workstation to any of the DC's "netlogon" folder , it is prompting for the user name and password.
Have tried the following and still could not get the issue resolved -
DCDIAG - no error reported from the DC's ( two DC's are the main site) - Windows 2016 DC's
nltest - no error
dns - no error
etc
Removed the WS and added back to the domain
Checked the MTU Size and no fragmentation at all
Ran out of idea and hit the wall -- please help
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Anonymous
2020-12-16T02:31:21+00:00 -
Anonymous
2020-12-16T02:17:02+00:00 Thanks John ,
Sorry Accidentally , have posted in the same forum again so please remove both the posts from this site
Regards
RK
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Anonymous
2020-12-15T23:54:06+00:00 Hello Ranjith,
I'm John an Independent Advisor and a Microsoft user like you. I'll be happy to assist you today.
Since this is a consumer forum for Home users, I would recommend to post your query on our sister forum Microsoft Site QA in Server 2016 section which is a technical community platform where most of the members were IT professionals that would greatly help you with the issue. They have IT experts there that can assist you better especially about Windows Servers, Active directory and Group Policy configurations, etc.
Microsoft Site QA
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/index....
Windows Server 2016
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/topics...
Sincerely,
John DeV
Independent Advisor