Login failed for user 'NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE'

Question

I been strugling with this for 2 days now without comming any closer to solution. I have read 20-30 threads alteast and stil can not resolve this.

Please help me out

Answer 1

The SQL Server login required is DOMAIN\machinename$. This is the how the calling NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE appears to SQL Server (and file servers etc)

In SQL,

CREATE LOGIN [XYZ\Gandalf$] FROM WINDOWS