I have seen this question posted on the forum many times before, but no solution worked for me.
I have three servers that I would like to configure in a failover cluster, but I cannot perform validation testing. Every time that I try to perform a validation, it gives me an error when adding a server: "You do not have administrative privileges on the server <servername>."
The account that I am using is a domain account, and it is apart of the local Admin, Remote Desktop Users, and Remote Management Users group on each server.
To make sure that the account I was using wasn't corrupt, I deleted the user profile from the Registry and had it recreated, with no change.
None of the servers are a DC.
I shouldn't need to have domain permissions to create computer objects. I've done this in the past without having this ability and it worked fine. I also shouldn't need to be a domain admin. I've done this in the past without being a domain admin, and it worked fine.
I also notice that if I try to remotely manage another server through Server Manager (i.e. trying to launch "Computer Management" under a remote server), i get a popup window with the title "Event Viewer" and the message "Access Denied(5)"
It's as if the servers are not recognizing this domain account as being apart of local admins, even though it's apart of the group on each server.
