Re: SCCM Distribution Point Server share

Dear Torsten,

Actually there is one site server with all roles, but we want to place the distribution share (DS) Role on a seperate server.

Now, your advice creating an admin$ share was quite qood, because the 'SMS Site System Status Summarizer' shows no more errors and logs the diskspace,so the process sets the status of the storage object to OK in the Site System Status summary.

So far so good, but it's still not possible to place a packages on the Netapp-share by SMS Distribution Manager (DM).

You said, that this szenario is not supported, so what kind of architecture works with storage who is not managed by Windows-OS like NetApp?

Actually we don't want to use block based protocols like iSCSI which should work of course, but we need to access the packages and other files from different clients. Therefor a common Fileprotocol like cifs is needed.

How about setting up an IIS based Windows Server for BITS/http/https usages as a DS and using the Netapp shares as virtual directories? Well, this probably doesn't not close the gap to place packages on the Netapp server share, but the IIS can connect the files on the remote Netapp share and reach them out to the clients by http/https.

Could we place the packages on the Netapp-share by a different process than DM, (Filecopy,sync,robocopy,a.s.o) and the manage them within site-server console?

What is your advice, the sccm documantation does not tell anything about the dependencies and precautions for similar scenarios?

Torsten [MVP] schrieb:
Hi Carsten,

you granted permissions for the MP? That would work if the MP is also the siteserver (because the siteserver will be sending the packages, not the MP).
I haven't tried that configuration with SCCM yet, but with SMS 2003 you also needed an admin$ share on the DP (even if SMS never put any files in it). Maybe you should give that a try. This scenario will not be supported ...

Torsten
Microsoft MVP - SMS

"Carsten Cramer" <carsten.cramer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:%23rpPJNhfIHA.4144@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi,
I want to set up a remote Server Share as Distribution Point on a NetApp Filer.

A share exists and I granted share-level an Filesystem ACLs to the Computername$ Account of the sccm Management-Point Machine.

Acctually the 'SMS Site System Status Summarizer' logs errors due to 'access denied' and it's not possible to send packages to that distribution point.

What has to be configured, so that a remote server share can be successfully used. All Hosts are within the same Domain?

Could it be, that a NetApp based cifs Filer-share cannot be used as Software Distribution Point?

BTW:
BITS / HTTP / HTTPS are not enabled for that distribution point, because it's a Netapp Filer, where IIS cannot be installed of cource ;-)
The Main sccm Roles resides on a single Host.

Thanks so far.

.

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