{"id":3485,"date":"2018-01-23T20:11:42","date_gmt":"2018-01-24T01:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/microdevsys.com\/wp\/?p=3485"},"modified":"2018-01-23T20:12:31","modified_gmt":"2018-01-24T01:12:31","slug":"the-local-security-authority-cannot-be-contacted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microdevsys.com\/wp\/the-local-security-authority-cannot-be-contacted\/","title":{"rendered":"The Local Security Authority cannot be contacted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\tMove the windows server into a dummy workgroup then back into the domain it was originally on to resolve:\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 40px;\">\n\t<span style=\"font-family:courier new,courier,monospace;\">The Local Security Authority cannot be contacted<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tHowever you may get:\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 40px;\">\n\t<span style=\"font-family:courier new,courier,monospace;\">The following error occurred attempting to join the domain &quot;abc.123&quot;:<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe request is not supported.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tChecking the logs we see this:\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 40px;\">\n\t<span style=\"font-family:courier new,courier,monospace;\">%systemroot%\\debug\\netsetup.log<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 40px;\">\n\t<span style=\"font-family:courier new,courier,monospace;\">01\/23\/2018 19:57:02:446 NetpIsTargetImageADC: Determined this is a DC image as RegQueryValueExW loaded Services\\NTDS\\Parameters\\DSA Database file: 0x0<br \/>\n\t01\/23\/2018 19:57:02:446 NetpOpenRegistry: The image at C:\\Windows\\system32\\config\\SYSTEM is a DC: 0x32.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tIn this case find out the path of the DSA Database file:\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 40px;\">\n\t<span style=\"font-family:courier new,courier,monospace;\">Location: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\System\\CurrentControlSet\\Services\\NTDS\\Parameters\\<br \/>\n\tField: DSA Database file<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tthen remove it.&nbsp; Or move it out of the way:\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 40px;\">\n\t<span style=\"font-family:courier new,courier,monospace;\">PS C:\\windows\\ntds&gt; mv ntds.dit ntds.dit-bad<br \/>\n\tPS C:\\windows\\ntds&gt; dir<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<br \/>\n\t<span style=\"font-family:courier new,courier,monospace;\">&nbsp; &nbsp; Directory: C:\\windows\\ntds<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 40px;\">\n\t<br \/>\n\t<span style=\"font-family:courier new,courier,monospace;\">Mode&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; LastWriteTime&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Length Name<br \/>\n\t&#8212;-&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&#8212;&#8212; &#8212;-<br \/>\n\t-a&#8212;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;1\/23\/2018&nbsp; &nbsp;2:21 PM&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;8192 edb.chk<br \/>\n\t-a&#8212;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;1\/23\/2018&nbsp; &nbsp;2:21 PM&nbsp; &nbsp;10485760 edb.log<br \/>\n\t-a&#8212;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;1\/23\/2018&nbsp; &nbsp;2:21 PM&nbsp; &nbsp;10485760 edbres00001.jrs<br \/>\n\t-a&#8212;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;1\/23\/2018&nbsp; &nbsp;2:21 PM&nbsp; &nbsp;10485760 edbres00002.jrs<br \/>\n\t-a&#8212;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;1\/23\/2018&nbsp; &nbsp;2:21 PM&nbsp; &nbsp;10485760 edbtmp.log<br \/>\n\t-a&#8212;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;1\/23\/2018&nbsp; &nbsp;2:21 PM&nbsp; &nbsp;12599296 ntds.dit-bad<br \/>\n\t-a&#8212;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;1\/23\/2018&nbsp; &nbsp;2:21 PM&nbsp; &nbsp; 2113536 temp.edb<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 40px;\">\n\t<br \/>\n\t<span style=\"font-family:courier new,courier,monospace;\">PS C:\\windows\\ntds&gt;<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tCheers,<br \/>\n\tTK<\/p>\n\n    <div class=\"xs_social_share_widget xs_share_url after_content \t\tmain_content  wslu-style-1 wslu-share-box-shaped wslu-fill-colored wslu-none wslu-share-horizontal wslu-theme-font-no wslu-main_content\">\n\n\t\t\n        <ul>\n\t\t\t        <\/ul>\n    <\/div> \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Move the windows server into a dummy workgroup then back into the domain it was originally on to resolve: The Local Security Authority cannot be contacted However you may get: The following error occurred attempting to join the domain &quot;abc.123&quot;: The request is not supported. Checking the logs we see this: %systemroot%\\debug\\netsetup.log 01\/23\/2018 19:57:02:446 NetpIsTargetImageADC: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-unix-linux-admin-stuff"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microdevsys.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microdevsys.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microdevsys.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microdevsys.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microdevsys.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3485"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/microdevsys.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3487,"href":"https:\/\/microdevsys.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3485\/revisions\/3487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microdevsys.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microdevsys.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microdevsys.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}