Re: CLient installation failure

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From: Jeff Harbaugh [MSFT] (jeffharb_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 10/04/04


Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2004 13:54:30 -0700

It sounds like you have a boundary issue. The client is de-installing
because it does not match the site boundaries. Please verify again that
these are correct.

-- 
Thanks,
Jeff Harbaugh [MSFT]
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"Clay White" <clay.e.white@wellsfargo.com> wrote in message 
news:2f3e01c4aa4e$e2819290$a301280a@phx.gbl...
> Thanks,
>
> That was exactly what  was trying to remember!    I did
> try that though, and can watch the SMS directories
> getting built, then, in the middle of installing they un-
> install themselves.
>
> Clay
>>-----Original Message-----
>>Are you using smsls.bat? Since you say that this is a
> remote site, could the
>>problem be that the slownet checking in smsls.bat causes
> it to bail out
>>before installing the client?
>>
>>When you talking about the file copy to CAP, I guess you
> talk about CCR's.
>>Just create a text file with the following and copy it
> to
>>\\<server>\cap_<sitecode>\ccr.box\<randomname>.ccr :
>>
>>[NT Client Configuration Request]
>>Machine Name=COMPUTERNAME
>>Forced CCR=True
>>
>>Rgds,
>>Rune
>>
>>
>>"Clay White" <clay.e.white@wellsfargo.com> wrote in
> message
>>news:1f5001c4aa43$34a4e8d0$a501280a@phx.gbl...
>>> Here's my scenario:
>>>
>>> I have an SMS 2.0 /SP5 setup that has worked fine.    I
>>> installed some new servers out in a remote site and SMS
>>> client & tools will not install properly no matter
>>> what.    The new servers are in utilizing fixed IP's
> that
>>> are within the site boundaries, the various SMS
> accounts
>>> have been given local access to the servers.  the
> client
>>> tries to install but never finishes and gives no
>>> errors.   The %windir%\MS\SMS\CORE directory is created
>>> but no other.    I dimly recall (I am over 40 and have
>>> slept) that there was a way that I could edit a
> specific
>>> file by putting the machine name of the problem machine
>>> in this file, then copy it to a directory on the sie
>>> server's cap directory?   ring any bells?      Any help
>>> would be much appreciated.   Thanks,
>>>
>>> Clay E. White
>>>
>>> clay.e.white@wellsfargo.com
>>
>>
>>.
>> 


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