TSADMIN not working correctly

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Hi all,
I have 5 terminal servers in "workgroup" mode (not joined in a
domain), two was upgraded from win2000srv to win2003std.
The servers work correctly, but running tsadmin.exe on 4 of them while
trying to connect to the last one (it's one of the two upgraded) it
gives a strange error "Authentication error, impossible to
connect" (the message colud be a little different, I traslated it from
italian).
I get same error tring to connect from windowsXP client running "\
\ts_not_working\c$\windows\system32\tsadmin.exe" with the right
adminstrator credentials.
I'm logged as administrator (of course) and, as I wrote, it works
correctly on the other TS.
Tsadmin from the server with the issue to the other 4, all works fine.
I tried to compare a lot of settings (permission, policies etc), read
events logs, googled about it, but I wasn't able to find a solution
(even it seems other people had/have same issue).

TIA

G.F.
 
Re: TSADMIN not working correctly

Say, ServerA is the machine you cannot connect remotely with tsadmin, which
is upgraded to Win2k3 from win2k server, is in workgroup.
To rule out any potential cached credential, delete all net use, delete all
store names with cmdkey.exe /delete:ServerA
Please make sure that the administrator account and its password you use to
run tsadmin is identical across all machines.
Can you use ServerA IP to connect with tsadmin.exe remotely?
Can you please try to disable ServerA firewall and try to use tsadmin to
connect again?
Can you ping ServerA remotely?
Can you remote desktop to ServerA remotely?
what do you get when you run the following in a cmd shell from a remote
machine?
qwinsta.exe /Server:ServerA
what do you get when you run the following in a cmd shell locally on
ServerA?
qwinsta.exe
what is the value of the following regkey on ServerA?
HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal Server\AllowRemoteRPC

Copying tsadmin.exe from server to XP is not supported. To run tsadmin.exe
on XP, you need to use win2k3 admin pack:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...15-c8f4-47ef-a1e4-a8dcbacff8e3&DisplayLang=en

Thanks
Soo Kuan



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"GF" <giovanni.ferloni@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:061662e2-fae2-4250-94dd-51b066b6d461@79g2000hsk.googlegroups.com...
> Hi all,
> I have 5 terminal servers in "workgroup" mode (not joined in a
> domain), two was upgraded from win2000srv to win2003std.
> The servers work correctly, but running tsadmin.exe on 4 of them while
> trying to connect to the last one (it's one of the two upgraded) it
> gives a strange error "Authentication error, impossible to
> connect" (the message colud be a little different, I traslated it from
> italian).
> I get same error tring to connect from windowsXP client running "\
> \ts_not_working\c$\windows\system32\tsadmin.exe" with the right
> adminstrator credentials.
> I'm logged as administrator (of course) and, as I wrote, it works
> correctly on the other TS.
> Tsadmin from the server with the issue to the other 4, all works fine.
> I tried to compare a lot of settings (permission, policies etc), read
> events logs, googled about it, but I wasn't able to find a solution
> (even it seems other people had/have same issue).
>
> TIA
>
> G.F.
 
Re: TSADMIN not working correctly

> Say, ServerA is the machine you cannot connect remotely with tsadmin, which
> is upgraded to Win2k3 from win2k server, is in workgroup.
Right.

> To rule out any potential cached credential, delete all net use, delete all
> store names with cmdkey.exe /delete:ServerA
Done. (even net use -> empty list, cmdkey /list shows no credential
stored)

> Please make sure that the administrator account and its password you use to
> run tsadmin is identical across all machines.
Yes I'm sure

> Can you use ServerA IP to connect with tsadmin.exe remotely?
Ye works fine, I can admin all other TermServ

> Can you please try to disable ServerA firewall and try to use tsadmin to
> connect again?
Firewall is disabled

> Can you ping ServerA remotely?
> Can you remote desktop to ServerA remotely?
Yes, I can connect to ServerA both user & admins account correctly.

> what do you get when you run the following in a cmd shell from a remote
> machine?
> qwinsta.exe /Server:ServerA
> what do you get when you run the following in a cmd shell locally on
> ServerA?
> qwinsta.exe
Shows correctly active connections
Fired from another server works fine too (prints currently active
connections) (!!!)

> what is the value of the following regkey on ServerA?
> HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal Server\AllowRemoteRPC
Already tried to set it = 1 (this key was missing)

Thanks
GF
 
Re: TSADMIN not working correctly

I feel that something go wrong with gateways.
The servers have 2 nic configured with to different class: NIC #1
192.168.0.X NIC #2 192.168.1.X

IP Working servers
Server #1
NIC #1 192.168.0.1
NIC #2 192.168.1.1

Server #2
NIC #1 192.168.0.2
NIC #2 192.168.1.2

..
..
..
ad so on

Server #5 (not full working)
NIC #1 192.168.0.5
NIC #2 192.168.1.5

pings are ok on both ip class on all server

RDPing from Server #5 works fine on all IP of the remaining TS (eg.
192.128.0.1, 192.168.1.1, 192.168.0.2, 192.168.1.2 ecc)

RDPing from Servers #1, #2, #3, #4 vs TS #5 works only on 192.168.1.X
class; trying to connect on 192.168.0.5 gives connection errors.

Is this information useful?
 
Re: TSADMIN not working correctly

can you please share what is the ServerA setting on the
TScc.msc->RDP-Tcp->Network Adapter->Network Adapter?


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"GF" <giovanni.ferloni@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1d2bc5e6-184e-4028-bb6e-e293ca24ef09@m36g2000hse.googlegroups.com...
>I feel that something go wrong with gateways.
> The servers have 2 nic configured with to different class: NIC #1
> 192.168.0.X NIC #2 192.168.1.X
>
> IP Working servers
> Server #1
> NIC #1 192.168.0.1
> NIC #2 192.168.1.1
>
> Server #2
> NIC #1 192.168.0.2
> NIC #2 192.168.1.2
>
> .
> .
> .
> ad so on
>
> Server #5 (not full working)
> NIC #1 192.168.0.5
> NIC #2 192.168.1.5
>
> pings are ok on both ip class on all server
>
> RDPing from Server #5 works fine on all IP of the remaining TS (eg.
> 192.128.0.1, 192.168.1.1, 192.168.0.2, 192.168.1.2 ecc)
>
> RDPing from Servers #1, #2, #3, #4 vs TS #5 works only on 192.168.1.X
> class; trying to connect on 192.168.0.5 gives connection errors.
>
> Is this information useful?
 
Re: TSADMIN not working correctly

On Jul 30, 5:19 pm, "Soo Kuan Teo [MSFT]"
<sooku...@online.microsoft.com> wrote:
> can you please share what is the ServerA setting on the
> TScc.msc->RDP-Tcp->Network Adapter->Network Adapter?
>

"All network card avaible" (trad. from italian)

GF
 
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