Re: Strange Magic post SP1a

  • From: "Thomas W. Shinder" <tshinder@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "[ISAserver.org Discussion List]" <isalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 08:11:34 -0600

Hi Leroux,

That could be the problem, but I already did it once with the first
version SP1. Maybe the client has changed again with SP1a?

Thanks!

Tom
www.isaserver.org/shinder


-----Original Message-----
From: leroux ludovic [mailto:leroux_ludovic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2002 8:05 AM
To: [ISAserver.org Discussion List]
Subject: [isalist] Re: Strange Magic post SP1a

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after sp1 installation you have to run the setup mspclnt.exe on all the
firewall clients
because it has been changed since the sp1 update.
Good luck


----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas W. Shinder" <tshinder@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "[ISAserver.org Discussion List]" <isalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2002 3:01 PM
Subject: [isalist] Strange Magic post SP1a


> http://www.ISAserver.org
>
>
> Hey everyone,
>
> I installed SP1a the night it became available. No problems until this
> A.M. Here's the story:
>
> Everything was fine since installation. I finished up my scribblings
for
> the day at 4AM today. The last thing I did before going to bed was
surf
> the ISAserver.org site (of course!). No problem with that.
>
> I got up at 6AM today to get started on a new project, and the first
> thing I did was go to the ISAserver.org site (of course!). I got a
404.
> huh? Then I tried another site and got the same thing.
>
> Next thing I did was open a command prompt and type ftp
> ftp.microsoft.com and got an error (like a dolt, I did not write down
> the error but the gist was that it could not connect). Interesting.
HTTP
> and FTP didn't work.
>
> Next, tried an nslookup, and that didn't work either.
>
> Hmmm. How about a non-TCP/UDP protocol? OK -- I ping the internal
> interface of the ISA Server and its works! Yeah! Now let's see if the
> ISA Server is whack: ping www.dallas.net and get a response. OK, so
the
> firewall service is still working on the ISA Server.
>
> Since it seems like the ISA Server is working, I try to open a
Terminal
> Services session to the ISA Server and get an almost immediate
response
> that the connection cannot be established. Great. :-(
>
> Next, I go back to the command prompt and do a ROUTE PRINT. Nothing
> abnormal there. Then an IPCONFIG /ALL. Nothing wrong there. Check the
> Event Log. It shows some authentication problems related to the fact
> that the machine isn't able to connect to the DCs on the network.
>
> Maybe disabling the NIC and re-enabling it will work. Nope! How about
> that strange "repair the connection" command when you see when you
right
> click the NIC icon in the Dial-up and Network connections dialog box?
No
> workie either.
>
> Hey! Maybe the Firewall client is whack. I try to refresh the
> configuration and I get the message that essentially says it can't
> communicate with the ISA Server, and that maybe I have the wrong
version
> or something (i.e., not helpful). OK, thinking that the machine is
> possessed, I exorcise it by hard booting the sucker.
>
> After restarting I use the LKG config "just in case". Everything is
> working fine, I think. That is to say, everything that I've tried to
do
> so far is working, although during system boot my network connections
> didn't come online immediately and I received an error message to this
> effect via a tray icon (Although I think the tray went to court and
> officially changed its name to 'notification area' as part of the
> divorce agreement between Windows XP and Win9x/Windows 2000).
>
> Anyhow, to make a long story short, I have no idea what happened
during
> those two short hours of sleep, but I "suspect" that the Firewall
client
> had a hand in this since only TCP/UDP protocols were affected. Please
> tell me that NONE of you have had this problem since installing SP1a
and
> that this was an isolated random error that I will never see again.
>
> Thanks for watching,
> Tom
> www.isaserver.org/shinder
>
>
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