DFS Health Report cannot connect to one server

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

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

"Brock Hensley" <> wrote in message
news0882AFE-22D3-43B7-BA57-...
> 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

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

"Brock Hensley" <> wrote in message
news:05C7BDF7-03C6-47E3-9780-...
> 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
>
> "Brock Hensley" <> wrote in message
> news0882AFE-22D3-43B7-BA57-...
>> 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
>

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

"Brock Hensley" <> wrote in message
news:9019CA3E-F767-416E-9FE5-...
> 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
>
> "Brock Hensley" <> wrote in message
> news:05C7BDF7-03C6-47E3-9780-...
>> 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
>>
>> "Brock Hensley" <> wrote in message
>> news0882AFE-22D3-43B7-BA57-...
>>> 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
>>
>