MOSS is scary!
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
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.
4 comments:
This is by design if you select a dedicated web front end for crawling in your search service settings in Central Administration. Here is a TechNet article that explains it, http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/87e0397a-ddab-442f-91cd-8acf0c0c712b1033.mspx?mfr=true
Dpuggie,
thanks for the link! Explains a lot ;) Although it still remains scary!
Modifying the hosts file is not the solution, MOSS just changes it back.
yes, I tried modifying the hosts file but moss just changes it again..
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