Verify that you can resolve the hostname properly through both WINS and DNS.
Ed Crowley MCSE+Internet MVP Freelance E-Mail Philosopher Protecting the world from PSTs and Bricked Backups!T -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Niki Blowfield Sent: Monday, June 30, 2003 3:16 AM To: Exchange Discussions 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 _________________________________________________________________ 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]
