Re: Clients do not run advertisements

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From: Richard Threlkeld (pleasenospam_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 07/23/04 

Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 23:44:16 -0700

Possibly a problem with MP communications if you are getting a 401 error.
What happens when you use MP Spy to look through policies? 

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Richard Threlkeld
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"Bob Josephson" <rjosephs@manchesternh.gov> wrote in message 
news:22cd01c47004$48082550$a301280a@phx.gbl...
> We are running SMS 2003. Everything has been running fine
> until just recently. Clients have stopped running any
> advertisements. This also includes the scheduled weekly
> scan tools advertisement that has until this point been
> running perfectly.
>
> There have been no configuration changes to the SMS server
> or the OS.
>
> The system status is all green.
>
> The event log on the server does not show any error or
> warning messages.
>
> The CCMExec log file on the clients show "Request failed:
> 401 Access Denied" (I have not figured out how to correct
> this).
>
> I also followed the steps described in KB828363.
>
> I double checked the share permissions, which seem ok.
>
> Existing packages and newly created packages result in the
> same problem. After distributing the software nothing
> happens. A check of the advertisement status shows the job
> sitting there but with 0's all the way across. I even
> tried sending an advertisement to another administrator to
> insure that a permissions issue was not the culprit.
>
> Has anyone seen or heard of anything like this? Am I
> looking in the wrong places for errors? Any ideas where
> else to look? Thanks for any input or suggestions
>

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