NTSTATUS 0xC000017A (STATUS_NO_SUCH_MEMBER): meaning and diagnosis

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Description: The principal to add to or remove from a local group cannot be resolved.

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STATUS_NO_MEDIA	STATUS_INVALID_MEMBER

STATUS_NO_SUCH_MEMBER

The requested alias member does not exist in the lookup context

Local-group APIs can accept SIDs representing local, domain, or trusted-domain principals. The status can result from a deleted account, stale SID, unavailable trusted domain, or a name that was resolved against the wrong authority before the membership operation.

Preserve the supplied SID or fully qualified name and the target machine. Do not create a new local user merely to make the text name resolve, because it will have a different SID and security identity.

What to inspect

Resolve the member SID independently against the expected authority.
Check trust and domain availability only for expected remote principals.
Remove stale provisioning references after confirming the original account was deleted.

References

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