Re: 2003 Administrator Console Connection Failed

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From: Miho Urabe [MSFT] (mihoura_at_microsoft.com)
Date: 03/17/05 

Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 10:59:34 -0800

Do you have any errors in smsadmin.log and smsprov.log?
It seems that you checked necessary things for the connection.
One thing I can think of is that access right to WMI sms name space.
Could you check if your account is for sms\site_xxx on Security tab on WMI
control snap-in?

Thanks,
Miho
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"BIon" <bionkim@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:030601c52b1a$a4c49d60$a501280a@phx.gbl...
>I am having an problem connecting with the Administrator
> Console. I am getting an error message stating Connection
> Failed. I have two workstations that are working
> (configured before my time), but I can't seem to connect
> with any other workstations. I am using the same account
> with all of them so I don't believe its a user rights
> issue. The admin account is in the local sms admins
> group. I've also increased the MAXSQLConnections value
> from 60 to 120 and verified that the "Enabled Distributed
> COM for this Computer" was selected in the Dcomcnfg. Is
> there any workstation rights that I need to permit to run
> the Admin Console?
>
> Thanks

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