"Rodney R. Fournier [MVP]" wrote:
> Are you using the same user for the SQL services that the cluster users? Did
> you reset the password for the SQL services?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Rod
>
> MVP - Windows Server - Clustering
>
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> "Pravin Patel" <PravinPatel@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:69743AB4-0F39-4F5F-96E7-F1F25FE66373@microsoft.com...
> > When I re-set the password for the cluster account on both nodes &
> > restarted
> > the cluster service, it started up okay but SQL would not come online;
> > what
> > may cause this issue?
> >
> > "Geoff N. Hiten" wrote:
> >
> >> The cluster service has to connect to the SQL instance in order to
> >> execute
> >> the IsAlive and LooksAlive checks. This is how the cluster service
> >> determines whether the resource is online. When you changed the cluster
> >> service account, it could no longer connect, therefore it showed the
> >> resources as offline.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Geoff N. Hiten
> >> Senior Database Administrator
> >> Microsoft SQL Server MVP
> >>
> >>
> >> "Pravin Patel" <Pravin Patel@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> >> news:CC096769-574E-4AE7-9E82-088BA2F2F9B7@microsoft.com...
> >> > Hi, Geoff Hiten I have been having issues with SQL not starting due to
> >> > the
> >> > following error message:
> >> >
> >> > [sqsrvres] checkODBCConnectError: sqlstate = 28000; native error =
> >> > 4818;
> >> > message = [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][SQL Server]Login failed
> >> > for user 'domain\account'
> >> >
> >> > I read through MSDN newsgroup & found your article regarding this
> >> > issue;
> >> > the problem started when the cluster service accounts were reset on
> >> > both
> >> > nodes & SQL would not start, to keep the story short here is what we
> >> > did.
> >> >
> >> > After reseting the password in Active Directory for all the service
> >> > accounts, all the services are running properly but in cluster
> >> > adminstartion the sql resource is not online.
> >> >
> >> > Later I Guessed that the windows cluster login which is on the sql
> >> > server is not mapped with active Directory changes.
> >> >
> >> > So I dropped the cluster service logon on sql server and re-created.
> >> > <--
> >> > This seem to work but my question is why would we drop the cluster
> >> > service logon on sql server & re-create it to have sql working again.
> >> >
> >> > If you can provide some insight, information, docs it would be a great
> >> > benefit.
> >> >
> >> > Pravin.patel@hp.com
> >> >
> >>
> >>
> >>
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