Re: RSOP gives RPC error
From: Steven L Umbach (n9rou_at_nospam-comcast.net)
Date: 02/11/05
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Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 23:14:35 -0600
As far as the RSOP not working, try to disable the firewall temporarily
[assuming there is other firewall protection] to see if that makes a
difference or not. If you still have a problem then it is not the firewall
but another problem. You also could use RSOP in planning mode to see if that
works and will give you an idea if the Group Policy shows as being applied
to the target computers. In general when there is a Group Policy and rpc
problem I suggest running the netdiag support tool on the problem client
computer looking especially for problems with dc discovery, dns, kerebros,
and trust/secure channel.
Also make sure that the client computers can ping the SUS server by fully
qualified domain name as in server1.mydomain.com. The SUS server must have
port 80 TCP available to the client computers. One thing I have noticed is
that it is important to use the fully qualified domain name of the SUS
server in Group Policy for the client configuration. Sometimes checking the
Windows update.log in the client computers \Windows folder can be helpful.
Make sure that you have approved some updates or the client computers will
have nothing to pull from the SUS server. The link below is pretty good step
by step in configuring Group Policy client for Windows Update. You can also
check the registry keys on a domain computer to see if the Group Policy has
applied or not. --- Steve
http://www.bris.ac.uk/is/services/computers/operatingsystems/sus/configuring.html
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;328010 -- shows
what registry keys to check.
"Chris" <chris.ruys@unisonsolutions.com.au> wrote in message
news:%23m$PnK$DFHA.2508@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> Thanks Steve
> The client is an XPSP2 computer. The firewall is enabled, but it does
> have an exception for file and print sharing.
> The computer is turned on (I'm sending this message from it!) and does
> respond to a ping from the server.
> DNS appears to be configured correctly. Certainly, the issues noted in
> the link you gave are all OK.
> The reason I'm trying to do this is that we have installed a SUS server on
> our SBS 2003 server. We have applied the relevant changes in the default
> domain group policy and have ensured that the computers to which the
> policy will apply are in the SBSComputers container in AD. However, none
> of the computers in our domain are getting their updates from the SUS
> server! The server itself seems to be correctly configured for SUS, but
> the workstations don't know it's there.
> Any help with this would be much appreciated.
>
> Thanks
>
> Chris
>
>
> "Steven L Umbach" <n9rou@nospam-comcast.net> wrote in message
> news:uiTxxtmDFHA.1936@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
>> If the client is an XP computer make sure the Windows firewall is
>> disabled or it has an exception for file and print sharing. Otherwise it
>> can mean the computer is not turned on, not reachable [use ping to
>> verify], or there is a dns configuration problem on the network. ---
>> Steve
>>
>> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb%3Ben-us%3B291382 ---
>> how Active Directory dns must be configured.
>>
>> "Chris" <chris.ruys@unisonsolutions.com.au> wrote in message
>> news:udlth8lDFHA.2620@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
>>> Hello all
>>>
>>> I have been trying to use RSOP to establish policy settings for certain
>>> users on certain workstations in my domain. When I do so I get a Group
>>> Policy Error.
>>>
>>> It says "Failed to connect to <Workstation > due to the error listed
>>> below.
>>> The error is "The RPC server is unavailable"
>>>
>>> Any ideas??
>>>
>>
>>
>
>
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