Re: Vista Bus to SBS2003R2 connectcomputer problems . . .

Unfortunately the request cannot be passed on

regarding "Main problem is that with connectcomputer. Over the past few days we have gone over every nook and cranny including the Intranet settings which by default are turned off. You have to turn on Intranet settings and disable protected mode also add the server FQDN or IP to the list of trusted sites." None of these (except the intranet thing which pops up in explorer) are required if you have patched the SBS server with the Vista and Office 2007 compatibility patches

You should not have had to remove all those networking pieces.

I would like to see two things
1. go to a command prompt on your sbsserver and run "ipconfig /all > c:\serverconfig.txt do the same thing your vista workstation

copy and paste the complete output of both files here and identify which is which.

2. On the Vista Workstation, right click on the IE icon on the desktop and choose run as Adminstrator
when IE opens type http://sbsservername/connectcomputer

What happens??





"TrevorWhite" <TrevorWhite@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:585DA4ED-C4C4-4F1E-B307-35E3A60BAA4E@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi Chris,
Thanks for your comment, did not know that about Technet (I don't subscribe)
I saw a Mr Rob Li of MSFT address this issue to a point but have not seen the
conclusion. Would be very gratefull if anyone could pass this request on.

My experience with Security Certificates is not as you describe it (even
under XP clients) If a certificate is not present then you get a prompt. This
is not the main problem but would be good to resolve.

Main problem is that with connectcomputer. Over the past few days we have
gone over every nook and cranny including the Intranet settings which by
default are turned off. You have to turn on Intranet settings and disable
protected mode also add the server FQDN or IP to the list of trusted sites.

Main problem to get started was removing all the NICs and other protocols
that come with Vista out of the box apart from the one b eing used to connect
with.

If this can't be resolved is there a white paper that explains all that has
to be done to replace this important of SBS wizards. I need the VPN and other
remote stuff to work reliably and in a managable way. I've learnt that not
running the wizards in SBS is ust asking for trouble.

Really hope someone can through some light on this.

Regards
Trevor



"Cris Hanna [SBS-MVP]" wrote:

You will only get responses from Microsoft support in this forum if you
are a Technet Subscriber, the way I understand it

When you connect your Vista machine to the LAN, and it gets an IP from the
LAN, you should not see the security certificate.

The only other thing I can think of at this point would be to Check Vista
and make sure that the IntraNet settings

When I connect a new vista machine to the network using
http://servername/connectcomputer I typically get one of those
"information" bars telling me that Intranet sharing (I could be wrong on
the exact wording) is not turned on...would I like to enable it...I say
yes.

I do that...run connect computer again...and I'm off to the races
No security warnings...UAC does require me to let nshelp run, but thats
it.

The patches on your SBS server have taken care the errors about not being
an Admin or having to run IE& "as Administrator"


"TrevorWhite" <TrevorWhite@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:86124E9C-AD16-4EEC-9C41-A66E0563AFBE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Hi Joe,
Unfortunately I have been this route too. Have turned off the User Account
Control feature since this apparently locks some parts of the system drive
required by the connectcomputer script.

Also tried all flavours of running the procedure with admin rights. IE
right
clicking IE7 and selcting run as Admin, logging in as the actual local
admin
account, and running as myself with local admin rights. Still no change to
the situation.

I'd like to know how nshelp.exe attempts to download the files (IE FTP, or
what) and what permissions need to be apparent for this to succeed. Also
what
ISA2004 SP3 setings need to be in place. (open ports etc.)

Most of all I'd like some input from MS, there seems to be too many
instances of this problem for it to be not significant.

Regards
Trevor
Regards

"Joe" wrote:

TrevorWhite wrote:
Hi Chris,
I have spent 3 days amd the weekend on this to no avail.
Yep I run all of the KBs both on the server and on the Vista PC and
checked
same many times. I have also unbound the IPv6 protocols from all NICs
and
also those tunnel adaptors. Also uninstalled the Link-Layer protocols
and
disbled the wireless NIC.

There are two issues:
1. I don't seem to be able to install the Security Certificate by
clicking
on the Cert Error and then installing after viewing the certificate
(this was
and still is possible when connecting an XPpro machine, I tested after
I got
this problem)

I don't think IE on Vista does that. I haven't used it a great deal, but
I've always had to click 'go ahead anyway' and have never been able to
install an erroneous one. There's probably something a bit undocumented
involved.


2. When your start to run http:\\servername\connectcomputer I get the
dialogue that says do you want to run or save nshelp.exe. I click RUN
and an
error stating:

Small Business Server Network Configuration Wizard:
"An errior occured while trying to copy the Client setup files. Check
the
following and try again"
Check that the proxy box is not ticked (it isn't) It also says if I
don'y
have a Proxy setup then I need to rerun the Client Deployment
component on
the server. Since IE7 appears to be setup with a Proxy until I disable
it I
haven't run the Client Deployment component on the server. Not sure
how to do
this either.

If I click save instead of Run I can save the nshelp.exe to the
desktop. But
as soon as I run that file (as admin) I get the same error.

Hope you guys can help, this is drive me and a number of others to
distraction.

A wildly long shot: I was having trouble today getting connectcomputer
to run at all, it kept telling me I needed to be an admin, even after
making a local admin of the same name and password. The answer there is
to turn off user account control. There was no ISA involved, and I
wonder if you are seeing the ISA manifestation of the same kind of
thing.

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