DFS Health Report cannot connect to one server

[Brock Hensley]

Hello,

I have 2 x 2008 Windows Server 2008 Standard Edition (32-bit) servers, when
I run the DFS Health Report on ServerA, it CAN retrieve the data from
ServerB. However, when I run the report on ServerB, the following errors
occurs:


If I turn off the Firewall on ServerA, then the Diagnostic Report can
retrieve the data no problem.

I have confirmed and re-added all default DFS inbound rules for the Dynamic
Port and RFC Endpoint, but it is not allowing replication and the
diagnostics to complete.

The weird part is that I have dropped packets logging enabled for the
firewall on ServerA, but it doesn't even create the pfirewall.log.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
-B

[Brock Hensley]

Sorry, here's the errors:

Cannot retrieve version vectors from this member.

Cannot connect to reporting DCOM server.
Description: The RPC server is unavailable.

-B

Post by Brock Hensley
Hello,
I have 2 x 2008 Windows Server 2008 Standard Edition (32-bit) servers,
when I run the DFS Health Report on ServerA, it CAN retrieve the data from
ServerB. However, when I run the report on ServerB, the following errors
If I turn off the Firewall on ServerA, then the Diagnostic Report can
retrieve the data no problem.
I have confirmed and re-added all default DFS inbound rules for the
Dynamic Port and RFC Endpoint, but it is not allowing replication and the
diagnostics to complete.
The weird part is that I have dropped packets logging enabled for the
firewall on ServerA, but it doesn't even create the pfirewall.log.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
-B

[Brock Hensley]

Hello,

I just created rules on both servers to explicitly allow all traffic from
their respective IPs... and it still doesn't work. Dropping the firewall on
ServerA works though.

I don't see anything that is blocking the ports, the firewall log isn't
generated, the servers were just rebooted... What is going on?

-B

Post by Brock Hensley
Cannot retrieve version vectors from this member.
Cannot connect to reporting DCOM server.
Description: The RPC server is unavailable.
-B

Post by Brock Hensley
Hello,
I have 2 x 2008 Windows Server 2008 Standard Edition (32-bit) servers,
when I run the DFS Health Report on ServerA, it CAN retrieve the data
from ServerB. However, when I run the report on ServerB, the following
If I turn off the Firewall on ServerA, then the Diagnostic Report can
retrieve the data no problem.
I have confirmed and re-added all default DFS inbound rules for the
Dynamic Port and RFC Endpoint, but it is not allowing replication and the
diagnostics to complete.
The weird part is that I have dropped packets logging enabled for the
firewall on ServerA, but it doesn't even create the pfirewall.log.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
-B

[Brock Hensley]

Hello,

For the Blanket Allow All rule, I checked "Allow only secure connections" to
allow selecting "Override block rules" and added the server account to the
allow list and BAM it works.

*sigh*

-B

Post by Brock Hensley
Hello,
I just created rules on both servers to explicitly allow all traffic from
their respective IPs... and it still doesn't work. Dropping the firewall
on ServerA works though.
I don't see anything that is blocking the ports, the firewall log isn't
generated, the servers were just rebooted... What is going on?
-B

Post by Brock Hensley
Cannot retrieve version vectors from this member.
Cannot connect to reporting DCOM server.
Description: The RPC server is unavailable.
-B

Post by Brock Hensley
Hello,
I have 2 x 2008 Windows Server 2008 Standard Edition (32-bit) servers,
when I run the DFS Health Report on ServerA, it CAN retrieve the data
from ServerB. However, when I run the report on ServerB, the following
If I turn off the Firewall on ServerA, then the Diagnostic Report can
retrieve the data no problem.
I have confirmed and re-added all default DFS inbound rules for the
Dynamic Port and RFC Endpoint, but it is not allowing replication and
the diagnostics to complete.
The weird part is that I have dropped packets logging enabled for the
firewall on ServerA, but it doesn't even create the pfirewall.log.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
-B