I was referred to this forum after asking a question related to cluster configurations. You can see the original thread here: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winserverClustering/thread/663d7e78-8bee-4871-806f-7968f78df2b3/
Essentially, I was running the cluster validation tool after creating a cluster (because it completed successfully pre-cluster creation) and the following appeared:
Validating access using Server Message Block (SMB) protocol from node machine1.testlab.local to a share on node machine2.testlab.local.
Failed to validate Server Message Block (SMB) share access through the IP address of the fault tolerant network driver for failover clustering (NetFT). The connection was attempted with the Cluster Shared Volumes test user account, from node machine1.testlab.local to the share on node machine2.testlab.local. Access is denied.
Failed to validate Server Message Block (SMB) share access through the IP address of the fault tolerant network driver for failover clustering (NetFT). The connection was attempted with the Cluster Shared Volumes test user account, from node machine2.testlab.local to the share on node machine1.testlab.local. Access is denied.
Someone there tried to get me to access the administrative c$ share using identical local accounts on each machine and the IP addresses but I kept getting "access denied" errors. I moved the machines to an OU without any GPOs applied to try to see if something in AD was hurting access but that didn't resolve the problem. The user then suggested I check the security event log and the following appears:
Audit Success 12/10/2012 7:56:55 AM Microsoft Windows security auditing. 4634 Logoff
Audit Failure 12/10/2012 7:56:43 AM Microsoft Windows security auditing. 5140 File Share
Audit Failure 12/10/2012 7:56:43 AM Microsoft Windows security auditing. 5140 File Share
Audit Success 12/10/2012 7:56:43 AM Microsoft Windows security auditing. 5140 File Share
Audit Success 12/10/2012 7:56:43 AM Microsoft Windows security auditing. 4624 Logon
Audit Success 12/10/2012 7:56:43 AM Microsoft Windows security auditing. 4776 Credential Validation
He wasn't sure where to go from there and pointed me to this forum. Does anyone have an idea of where I can go from there?