[cvsnt] Re: Local Security Authority cannot be contacted

[Tony Hoyle]

Glen Starrett wrote:
> LSA is the MS app that handles the authentication, I believe for NTLM 
> level security, but it might apply to more advanced levels as well.  Try 
> looking to see if the LSA service is running on the users machine when 
> there is and is not having a problem to see if there's a correlation. If 
> there is, then try to figure out which app is crashing it.

If LSA stops, then the system shuts down (rather dramatically.. it gives 
you a countdown).  Try killing lsass.exe sometime :)

The error usually has something to do with the network in my experience, 
although the only time I've ever had it myself I fixed it with an OS 
reinstall (life's too short when you can't track it down).

Tony