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Small Business Server 2008 Connect Computer Progam Problem

Asked by: TrialWorks

I am deploying an SBS 2008 server and the Connect Computer Program is being a pain.  I want to preface this thinking it MAY be a DNS issue (keep reading) but not really sure what it could be (I've seen and resolved dozens of issues in SBS03 with the same component, first one that has left me without a clue.

So, for starters, here are the errors:
"Http://Connect
Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage
"
IF I run the connect computer executables from a USB drive I get the following error:
"Connect Computer Program - Error
An error occured while downloading the Connect Computer application. Please run this application again."

From the server, the http://connect works fine, but from the workstations it does not work at all.

Server has IP4 and IP6 configured.  Server IP is 192.168.1.6, DNS is the same.

Workstation are DHCP assigned by server,  IP are 192.168.1.1xx, and DNS is 192.168.1.6.

They can PING server by name.  

Interestingly, I can "PING CONNECT" on the server and get a response, but not from the workstations -- which makes me think I do have some sort of a DNS issue... but overall, everything else looks right.    Overall, the DNS setup is similar to how I've done all the 03's, DNS is not showing any issues on the server, and IIS shows all the compnents. As I mentioned, they are accessible form the server itself.

So, if it is DNS, I am at a loss as to why... if its not DNS, then I was thinking security on IIS. I am able to get to https://server/remote , and also to OMA.

Thanks

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2008-12-20 at 16:22:15ID24001082
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Answers

 

by: TrialWorksPosted on 2008-12-20 at 17:37:38ID: 23220458

I might have found something: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957708

If I dont update this, whoever finds this post, the last article was solution.

 

by: MPECSIncPosted on 2008-12-21 at 18:49:51ID: 23224443

When you open your DHCP manager and go to Scope Options, do you see:
 015 DNS Domain Name
 Standard
 mydomain.local
 None

Philip

 

by: TrialWorksPosted on 2009-01-02 at 14:44:08ID: 23282927

Thanks for the unput guys.  I mentioned in my prev post that I thought http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957708 was the fix, and would not come back to the post immediately.  That was in fact the fix.   DNS was fine, so was everything else, go figure.

 

by: jujitzu40Posted on 2009-02-13 at 12:13:06ID: 23636845

I had the same problem - I was using Static IP for my workstations and i switched to DHCP and i was able to get to Http://connect and no error message using Launcher.exe

 

by: maybanksystemsPosted on 2009-05-30 at 10:49:30ID: 24509735

The above fix worked for me.

 

by: lanoptPosted on 2009-10-23 at 07:02:59ID: 25644514

I had a similar issue. I had 2 NICs and when I disabled the unused one everything worked great. The DNS bindings were to the wrong NIC.

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