Could not obtain information about Windows NT group user

Question

I am creating a SQL Server Replication using a script. When I try to execute

The job failed. Unable to determine if the owner (STAR\\moorer7) of job L3BPT2M-

Answer 1

I had to connect to VPN for the publish script to successfully deploy to the DB.

Answer 2

For me, the jobs were running under DOMAIN\Administrator and failing with the error message "The job failed. Unable to determine if the owner (DOMAIN\administrator) of job Agent history clean up: distribution has server access (reason: Could not obtain information about Windows NT group/user 'DOMAIN\administrator', error code 0x5. [SQLSTATE 42000] (Error 15404)). To fix this, I changed the owner of each failing job to sa. Worked flawlessly after that. The jobs were related to replication cleanup, but I'm unsure if they were manually added or were added as a part of the replication set-up - I wasn't involved with it, so I am not sure.

Answer 3

I was having the same issue, which turned out to be caused by the Domain login that runs the SQL service being locked out in AD. The lockout was caused by an unrelated usage of the service account for another purpose with the wrong password.

The errors received from SQL Agent logs did not mention the service account's name, just the name of the user (job owner) that couldn't be authenticated (since it uses the service account to check with AD).