Re: Install of SMS not detecting Active Directory
- From: Josh L <JoshL@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2005 16:36:02 -0700
Hi Stan,thanks for your reply, yep it was that. The reason I was confused by
this was that same setup was working fine in test s (installing as local
admin on SMS server and using remote SQL server) but I had used the same
password on the local admin accounts of both test servers so logged on user
was getting local admin on remote SQL and everything worked. And then didn't
in production
Thanks, Josh
"Stan White [MS]" wrote:
> First of all, setup runs in the context of the logged on user and not the
> service account until the site is installed and the services start.
> Running setup as local administrator will not work very well, you will need
> a domain account with the permissions to query data from AD and admin rights
> on the SQL server. Try that and see how it goes.
>
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> "Josh L" <Josh L@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> > Hi, I'm installing SMS 2003 for first time in my environment, the
> > installation fails immediately after answering the options with an error
> > stating SQL server is not available. SQL is running on a separate server,
> > but is definitely available, with correct permissions (computer account of
> > SMS Server in Admin group of SQL server, database pre-created it, etc).
> > I've
> > gone through this process twice in a test environment with no problems,
> > also
> > with SQL server on separate server.
> >
> > One thing I noticed was when I run the SMS Setup, it does not display the
> > page which offers to extend the AD Schema. The relevant lines from the
> > SMSSetup.log are (changing names of domain etc)
> >
> > <05-30-2005 16:57:08> Checking domain for advanced security, PDC for
> > domain
> > MyDomain is \\MyDC
> > <05-30-2005 16:57:08> Cannot detect OS version for server \\MyDC
> > <05-30-2005 16:57:08> No server type detected from registry
> > <05-30-2005 16:57:08> The NT machine MySQLServer that's running the SQL
> > server is down.
> >
> > Our AD is out-sourced, I have already arranged for schema to be extended,
> > permissions to the System Manager container etc, verified everything
> >
> > The second and third lines in the SMSSetup.log do not appear in the test
> > environment where everything works ok. I'm performing the installation as
> > the local Administrator on the SMS server. It appears to me as though the
> > computer account of the SMS server cannot obtain the info it needs from
> > the
> > Domain Controller (in particuarl the PDC emulator I think) to determine
> > the
> > details of the AD it is in, probably assumes it is not in an AD, and
> > things
> > fail from there, as cannot authenciate with SQL Server.
> >
> > If I open up the \\MyDC\NetLogon (providing credentials to logon to the
> > AD)
> > and run the setup again (while still logged in as local Administrator) the
> > Extend Schema option page is displayed. Similarly, if I log on as a
> > domain
> > account with local Admin privileges, Extend Schema is displayed. I could
> > do
> > the installation like this, but would rather know why things are going
> > wrong
> > when worked fine in testing lab doing install as local Administrator, to
> > prevent further problems.
> >
> > The only difference between the testing lab and production was
> > Test: Domain functional level: Windows 2000 mixed, Forest: Windows 2000
> > Production: Domain functional level: Windows 2000 native, Forest: Windows
> > 2000
> >
> > Since production is native, would think this would be fine
> >
> > Any ideas?
>
>
>
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