topic Re: Authentication failures every 20 minutes on domain controller in QlikView

Authentication failures every 20 minutes on domain controller

jan-niklasbeier — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 18:19:17 GMT

Hello there,

we have installed some QlikView-Servers and now noticed, that Qlikview is trying to log on on a domain controller, every 20 minutes. The domain controller logs failed login attempts.

The Windows Services start all with the local user and in QMC no domain for authentication is set.

Which Qlikview Service does this amount of authentication attempts? And how can we disable them?

Edit: Qlik tries to log on to a different domain, that is not existing on the domain controller. The domain it tries to log on to is called the computername of the BI-Server.

Re: Authentication failures every 20 minutes on domain controller

Maria_Halley — Wed, 27 Apr 2022 09:50:47 GMT

@jan-niklasbeier

What User directory connector are you using? Is the QlikView service user allowed to connect to the local directory?

Re: Authentication failures every 20 minutes on domain controller

Claude1 — Mon, 02 May 2022 05:10:24 GMT

@jan-niklasbeier wrote:

Hello there,

we have installed some QlikView-Servers and now noticed, that Qlikview is trying to log on on a domain controller, every 20 minutes. The domain controller logs failed login attempts.

The Windows Services start all with the local user and in QMC no domain for authentication is set.

Which Qlikview Service does this amount of authentication attempts? And how can we disable them?

Edit: Qlik tries to log on to a different domain, that is not existing on the domain controller. The domain it tries to log on to is called the computername of the BI-Server.

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Looking for the same issue. Bumped into your thread. Thanks for creating it. Looking forward for solution.

Re: Authentication failures every 20 minutes on domain controller

jan-niklasbeier — Tue, 03 May 2022 06:43:04 GMT

We experienced that no user directory connector is necessary to cause into this issue.

Re: Authentication failures every 20 minutes on domain controller

Maria_Halley — Wed, 04 May 2022 06:48:10 GMT

@jan-niklasbeier

You don't have any user directory connector?