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Local Access to Central Admin

This is peculiar:

When I'm looking at my server's console and I try Start | Programs | Microsoft Office Server | SharePoint 3.0 Central Administration a browser opens pointed to http://MyServer:12345.  I get a log in prompt that says: Log in to MyServer.MyDomain.Local.

No matter what I enter, I am not getting logged in.  I try my setup account which is a domain admin.  I try other domain admins.  I try my DB Access account and all my service account.  After three tries, I end up with "You are not authorized to view this page."

I try reworking the URL to http://MyServer.MyDomain.Local:12345 and I try http://LocalHost:12345 and neither works.

The only thing that works is the IP address with the port number.

When I try the Central Admin site from my desktop, I get the Central Admin site, no sweat.

This seems suboptimal.

-robot

Posted 04-23-2008 12:06 PM by SPRobot

Comments

dwollerman wrote re: Local Access to Central Admin
on 04-23-2008 1:01 PM

Check you alternate access mappings. If the only entry in there is for the IP address, then that is the only address you will be able to use. If you need to use the server name or the fully qualified name then make sure you put those entrys in all under the same default zone for the central administration web application. Each zone you can have multiple internal urls, which will redirect you to the one public url allowed for that zone.

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