Don't know if I'm the only one who finds this scary. But in a farm, MOSS is modifying the hosts file of your servers. I had a really hard time figuring this one out actually. I was just playing around with different roles for each server. And then all of a sudden when I tried to use a share of one of the webservers from an indexserver I got the following error : "Logon Failure: The target account name is incorrect". If you google this error you will find information about wrongly configured DNS settings.
So with this information I decided to ping the webserver and see what IP I got back.. and you probably would have guessed it .. I got the IP back of the index server! Argh! So I logged on the webserver and try to ping itself and then ping the indexserver and all the IP's were fine. Back to the index server!
- I checked all the DNS settings via the TCP/IP settings
- Ran a tool called "netdiag" to check whether the server was properly configured in the domain
Nothing 'odd' or 'weird' was showing in the reports so I was getting a bit hopeless.. and then I thought: "Noo.. not the hosts file! It can't be!"
With this as a result :
# For example:
#
# 102.54.94.97 rhino.acme.com # source server
# 38.25.63.10 x.acme.com # x client host
10.10.4.238 webservercomputername # Added by Office SharePoint Server Search (9/13/2007 3:52 PM).
10.10.4.238 webserverhostname # Added by Office SharePoint Server Search (9/13/2007 3:52 PM).
127.0.0.1 localhost
.csharpcode, .csharpcode pre
{
font-size: small;
color: black;
font-family: consolas, "Courier New", courier, monospace;
background-color: #ffffff;
/*white-space: pre;*/
}
.csharpcode pre { margin: 0em; }
.csharpcode .rem { color: #008000; }
.csharpcode .kwrd { color: #0000ff; }
.csharpcode .str { color: #006080; }
.csharpcode .op { color: #0000c0; }
.csharpcode .preproc { color: #cc6633; }
.csharpcode .asp { background-color: #ffff00; }
.csharpcode .html { color: #800000; }
.csharpcode .attr { color: #ff0000; }
.csharpcode .alt
{
background-color: #f4f4f4;
width: 100%;
margin: 0em;
}
.csharpcode .lnum { color: #606060; }
See why I'm scared? ;) And that's why the share didn't work! It was just pointing to itself (although I should have seen the shares from the index server instead of that error).
The solution is just to modify the host file yourself and put in the proper IP.
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Posted
09-14-2007 2:04 AM
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