VEEAM B&R console sign-in issue...

[Koldov]

Just upgraded to v12 and although I thought I'd read the install screens and chose the correct options, I can't log in to the console.

 

Well, when I say I can't I mean that I can get in if I tick 'Use Windows session authentication' but if I don't and try to type in the domain\administrator password it says 'Failed to connect to Veeam Backup & Replication server. Access denied'.

 

Not quite sure how that works as the Windows session is signed in as the Domain Administrator...

[CHiLL]

I had this issue when they patched a vulnerability a couple of months ago. However, my issue was related to no longer being able to log in as a non-domain admin. My main account is a standard user and I had to change the shortcut to run as an administrator, authenticate with my separate domain admin credentials and then I could use the Windows session authentication to log in.

[Koldov]

Yeah, I get that using 'other' types of user accounts or password changes complicates matters, especially when you have set it to sign-in as one thing.

 

I didn't want to use 'session' and as I'm quite new to Veeam and also haven't got round to creating all the various accounts I probably should (standard user for server log-in and Veaam user for Veeam log-in) I'd rather have a log-in dialogue.

 

The thing is I had it set-up with a shortcut on the desktop to open to a password prompt before the upgrade (but I can't remember how I managed that), after the upgrade it also placed its standard shortcut on the desktop too, I clicked on the 'old' and the 'new' shortcut but get the access denied message.

 

What is confusing me is that it will accept the 'session' credentials, but not the manually typed in credentials of the session!

 

I also thought I'd read that the domain admin could always sign-in unless specifically removed...

Edited April 24, 2023 by Koldov