Client Licenses for SBS Suite Trial

[netjustin]

Hi, I noticed that the SBS installation installs the server client with Exchange, ISA, and other plugins, and automatically accounts for a trial license. Great. What about the workstations? I have around 15 that I want on the client for the SBS suite, presumably the Avast 4 Professional version.

What do I do?

[netjustin]

So I found the answer to my own question. I've installed ADNM as per another thread:

http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=25184.0

Having read that thread, I decided I wanted to be able to manage all of the clients centrally in ADNM.

Did really well so far. I installed ADNM & AMS, enabled the SA account for SQL Server 2005 (this is Small Business Server 2003 Premium with R2), and created an installation package as well as a deployment task that points to a single Windows XP machine for testing. All good there.

The problem is I'm getting an Access Denied (0x00000005) error when I run the deployment task. Session Status says to check the Remote Install log. Where is this log? I looked at the "events" section after running the task and then refreshing the console.

At the server, I have the "Login Accounts" item configured as follows, where <username> is a member of the Domain Administrators group.
Domain/Workgroup: domain.local
Account: domain\<username>
Password: <password>

On the target machine, I have the Windows XP Firewall turned on, with the "Don't allow exceptions" box *unchecked*. File and Printer Sharing is configured as an exception, as per section 5.0 in the Administrator's Guide.

Any ideas?

[netjustin]

Strike 1:

I turned on logging of dropped packets on the target machine's XP Firewall. Back to the  server's ADNM console, re-run the deployment task to the target computer, Access Denied again.

XP Firewall log shows no entries with source IP for the ADNM server.

[netjustin]

Strike 2:

I found the Remote Install log. Here is the process I have (over and over) logged in this file:

02/12/07 20:07:02:   rinstInstall begin
02/12/07 20:07:02:   Init 50 60 C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\aswB1.tmp C:\Program Files\Alwil Software\Management Tools\InstPkgs NULL C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\aswB0.tmp 0
02/12/07 20:07:02:   Store
02/12/07 20:07:02:   Domains: domain.local,
02/12/07 20:07:02:   Init DOMAIN\COMPUTER1
02/12/07 20:07:02:   COMPUTER1: GetAccount
02/12/07 20:07:02:   COMPUTER1: not found in domain list
02/12/07 20:07:02:   COMPUTER1: Finished with error
02/12/07 20:07:02:   TerminateAll
02/12/07 20:07:03:   rinstInstall end 87


Ran IPCONFIG at COMPUTER1, and compared the results to "NSLOOKUP COMPUTER1". DNS resolves the netbios name to its proper address.


Questions abound.....Does this indicate a resolution issue? Should I re-discover using the NT LAN Mangler option instead of Active Directory?

[netjustin]

Home Run.

I ran the deployment task successfully. This is only after experimenting with the "Login Accounts" settings.

Apparently, the "Domain/Workgroup" field seems to want a friendly NETBIOS style domain name, i.e. "domain", and NOT a DNS style domain name like "domain.local".

I'm glad the learning curve for ADNM isn't too daunting, though it's not for the faint of heart.

Thanks.

netjustin