Re: Admin Console Questions

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From: Sai Wong [MSFT] (saiwong_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 11/01/04 

Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2004 14:37:35 -0800

What is the SAP Admin Group you refer to ?
Is your user a member of the SMS Admins group ?

with the same user account
launch wbemtest.exe and try connecting to
\\MTN-SMSMGT1\root\sms

does the connection fail ? If it does it seems like an
ACL problem on that wmi namespace

Sai

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>-----Original Message-----
>Thanks for the reply Sai,
>
>Machines are both Win 2000 SP4
>I added the users to the SAP Admin Group on the site
server
>I also did a "Run As" with my normal admin account for
SMS as well as
>logging in to that machine with that account. (That
other account is a
>member of Domain Admins)
>
>These lines replicate at each attempt to connect (from
adminui.log):
>
>[898][Mon 11/01/2004 15:57:54]:Info(ConnectServer):
Connecting to server :
>namespace \\MTN-SMSMGT1\root\sms
>[898][Mon 11/01/2004 15:57:54]:Info(ConnectServer):
Connecting to server.
>Network : \\MTN-SMSMGT1\root\sms
>[898][Mon 11/01/2004 15:57:54]:Error(ConnectServer):
Possible UI connection
>error code is -2147024891 [0x80070005]
>
>Thanks for looking at this one for me!
>
>Karl
>
>
>
>
>
>
>"Sai Wong [MSFT]" <saiwong@online.microsoft.com> wrote
in message
>news:290601c4c03d$1c69a480$a601280a@phx.gbl...
>> What OS are the machines that you have the remote Admin
>> Console installed on ? Are they Windows XP SP2 perhaps,
>> if so look at other newsgroup posts regarding XP SP2
>> issues.
>>
>> Are you trying to connect using the same user account
as
>> you are on the site server ? Is this account a domain
>> account ?
>> If you are connecting using a different account, is it
a
>> member of the SMS Admins group ? Also does this account
>> have SMS permissions to any objects in the SMS
database ?
>>
>> Please send the adminui.log from the remote admin
console.
>>
>> Sai
>>
>>
>> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties,
and
>> confers no rights.
>>
>> >-----Original Message-----
>> >Hi all,
>> >
>> >Hopefully this is a basic question and I am having a
>> senior moment.
>> >
>> >I have installed the admin console on a couple of
>> machines but when I click
>> >on the MMC - I get a "can not connect to database"
>> message.
>> >
>> >Everything works great on the site server, but not
>> remotely. What do I have
>> >to do to make this work as far as permissions, etc?
>> (BTW - I am running 2003
>> >w/ SP1 with advanced security)(
>> >
>> >Thanks!
>> >
>> >Karl
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >.
>> >
>
>
>.
>

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