Any of these servers multi-homed? Also, I know you say DNS is working, but try putting all the respective entries in all the server's hosts files.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Niki Blowfield" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Exchange Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, June 30, 2003 5:57 AM Subject: Cannot Join Existing Site - Exch5.5 - RPCPing gurus? > Dear All, > > This is a problem I had at my previous employer, and I got around it by > temporarily removing DNS > whilst joining the site, this isnt working here > > We have 2 Exchange Servers on our private LAN. One has mailboxes, one has > IMC. Both Exch 5.5 SP4 > > Running on NT4 SP6a with only TCP/IP installed > > Both point to DNS and WINS servers on the same LAN address range > > There are no problems communicating between the 2 servers > > However, when attempting to join a 3rd server to the site, it fails at the > point of running setup where it > starts to make a copy of the directory, saying; > > "A connection could not be made to the remote directory service, possibly > due to a network failure. > Be sure both directory services are running and that your network is > available and running and then > try again. > > Microsoft Exchange Setup Error: c1030b11 " > > I've gone through the technet docs ensuring as best I can that comms are ok. > Ping is fine, and I'm able > to browse each server fine > > However, running RPCPing fails > > When running RPCPing32 from the new server (MBEXCH3) to an existing one > (MBEXCH2) it fails and reports; > > RPC call raised exception 0x6ba - The server is unavailable > > RPC service is running on all servers > > Cant find any documentation on troubleshooting RPC Ping errors > > help !!!!!!!!!!!!! > > > > Regards, > > Mr. Niki Blowfield > NT Administrator > Extension 482 > > Martin-Baker Aircraft Company Ltd. > Lower Road > Higher Denham > near Uxbridge > Middlesex > UB9 5AJ > England > > Tel : 01895 836 760 > Fax : 01895 832 587 > > _________________________________________________________________ > Hotmail messages direct to your mobile phone http://www.msn.co.uk/msnmobile > > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang=english > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
