Cluster: Can't logon as user {username}.

[emyatsuna]

Hi, I tried to manually create Cluster via GUI in my server and it went smoothly. I am using the same credentials (username&password) as input for the mandatory DomainAdministratorCredential but upon execution, I get the error below. Any ideas/ suggestions? Is it possible to disable the mandatory admincred param too and use the current windows user credentials if not provided? Thanks.

Error: PowerShell DSC resource MSFT_xCluster failed to execute Set-TargetResource functionality with error message: System.InvalidOperationException: Can't logon as user <username>.

[johlju]

Currently it is not possible to use PsDscRunAsCredential as the resource requires DomainAdministratorCredential to impersonate the user. But it should be possible to use PsDscRunAsCredential so I label this as enhancement that enhancement is tracked in another issue and wait for someone in the community to add that.

In regards to your error, how to you specify the credentials? This line is the one that fails for you.

https://github.com/PowerShell/xFailOverCluster/blob/44b3736f1aa0db53f2fa272527ba4c72306a8f05/DSCResources/MSFT_xCluster/MSFT_xCluster.psm1#L444-L445

[emyatsuna]

Hi, Glad to know that this will be enhanced.

I did the following call using Puppet:

dsc_xcluster{'CreateFailoverCluster':
      dsc_name => 'myclustername',
      dsc_domainadministratorcredential => {'user' => 'myuser', 'password' => 'mypassword'}
    }

I have successfully move forward with this by adding mydomain domain as additional input in user parameter. user => 'mydomain/myuser'

Thank you.

[johlju]

Glad you resolved it! Let us update the parameter description in the documentation saying that domain must be provided. 🙂