Why am I getting this error if I've already added the login Domain\ServerName$? Any ideas or workarounds?Īdd BOTH Domain\Servername$ login and NT AUTHORITY\Network Service login to SQL Server instance giving you above problem and give both logins the right permissions.
Just to get some more information I look at the SQL Server Error Logs using Management Studio and I can see that ther error ID is 18456, Severity 14 State 5 and the Reason for the error is Could not find a login matching the name provided. So, I add the login for Domain\Servername$ and give it server roles: dbcreator, public, securityadmin and sysadmin and then just to be on the safe side I give it db_owner permissions for each database in the SQL Server 2012 Evaluation instance I have. This makes sense since the account that is used for database provisioning for the new Reporting Database that needs to be created behind the scenes as part of Step 3 is the Identity for the Application Pool of SharePoint Central Administration which I currently have set as Network Service.Īnyhoo, the agreed upon solution is to add the login Domain\Servername$ to the SQL Server Instance that's giving me trouble and give it the right permissions ( links for similar problems: and. When I get to the end of Step 3: Create a Reporting Services Service Application and press OK, I get the following error: Login Failed for user 'Domain\Servername$'.Īccording to what I've found on the interweb this means that "a process running as NETWORK SERVICE or as LocalSystem has accessed a remote resource, has authenticated itself as the machine account and was denied authorization."
SQL ERROR 18456 SEVERITY 14 INSTALL
Ok, so I'm going through the steps to Install Reporting Services Sharepoint Mode for Sharepoint 2013 that can be found at.
All of the following is installed on Domain\Servername: