Hi everyone,
I am stuck here I've followed so many TN articles and none of them seem to solve what's happening to me.
I just opened up 2 brand new comps both win 7 pro and can't connect either let alone any other machines to my Win 2012 Essentials server.
Connected currently I'm under the 25 limit at
7 PC's (6 Win 7 Pro 64bit, 1 Win 8 pro)
The 2 new ones are identical models to 2 machines already on the server all updates and patches applied to Win 7.
I've tried by ip and host name to get the connect software going. It goes but I get stuck at the username/password screen once I enter my user account info or ANY one's account I get the "The server is not available. Try connecting this computer again, or for more information, see Troubleshoot connecting computers to the server"
Now I noticed the other day I had an alert on the server and ran best practices it said DNS was an issue so I fixed as directed the alert went away.
Also disabled my other unused Network Adapter on the server, and just for the heck of it disabled IPV6 on one of the new machines in hopes that would help but that's not it either.
Here are a few of the TN articles I've looked at but none of them helped me solve my particular problem.
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/7e468657-1804-49c3-9c53-d41f20e6d1d9/clients-cannot-connect-to-windows-2012-essentials-server?forum=winserveressentials
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/2eb71492-0175-4a36-baf8-864f9f08c2c2/cant-connect-client-computers-windows-server-2012-essentials?forum=winserveressentials
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/b6bdb7aa-cb39-4d52-8f0f-a0836965c821/connecting-client-to-windows-essentials-2012-r2?forum=winserveressentials
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/7a7b663b-03ea-448d-8ed3-92fa7053dc6c/cannot-connect-computer-to-the-server?forum=winserveressentials
Computerconnectorlog below any advise or a gust of wind in the right direction would be of great help:
[06/03/2014 10:08:36 e14] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [06/03/2014 10:08:36 e14] wmain: Start of Computerconnector [06/03/2014 10:08:36 e14] WARNING: CCmdLine::Parse - Failed to find arguement formatting in filename [C:\Users\admin\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\1UJKHC45\connect.exe]. [06/03/2014 10:08:36 e14] wmain: Calling Computerconnector::ShowWizard() [06/03/2014 10:08:36 e14] CComputerconnector::ShowWizard: Initializing common controls [06/03/2014 10:08:36 e14] CComputerconnector::ShowWizard: Done initializing common controls [06/03/2014 10:08:36 e14] Displaying the wizard [06/03/2014 10:08:36 e14] CComputerconnector::AnotherInstallationErrorDlgProc: IDD_ANOTHER_INSTALLATION_ERR Page Initialization [06/03/2014 10:08:36 e2c] CComputerconnector::Run: Installation is ready to run [06/03/2014 10:08:36 e2c] InitTrace: Moving to trace file: C:\Users\admin\AppData\Local\Temp\Windows Server\Logs\ServerLocator.log [06/03/2014 10:12:36 350] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [06/03/2014 10:12:36 350] wmain: Start of Computerconnector [06/03/2014 10:12:36 350] WARNING: CCmdLine::Parse - Failed to find arguement formatting in filename [C:\Users\admin\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\43UTRWJ3\connect.exe]. [06/03/2014 10:12:36 350] wmain: Calling Computerconnector::ShowWizard() [06/03/2014 10:12:36 350] CComputerconnector::ShowWizard: Initializing common controls [06/03/2014 10:12:36 350] CComputerconnector::ShowWizard: Done initializing common controls [06/03/2014 10:12:36 350] Displaying the wizard [06/03/2014 10:12:36 350] CComputerconnector::AnotherInstallationErrorDlgProc: IDD_ANOTHER_INSTALLATION_ERR Page Initialization [06/03/2014 10:12:36 e54] CComputerconnector::Run: Installation is ready to run [06/03/2014 10:12:36 350] CComputerconnector::AnotherInstallationErrorDlgProc: DIALOG_UPDATE: PreCheckPass [06/03/2014 10:12:36 350] CComputerconnector::ConnecttingDlgProc: IDD_CONNECTING Page Initialization [06/03/2014 10:12:36 e54] InitTrace: Moving to trace file: C:\Users\admin\AppData\Local\Temp\Windows Server\Logs\ServerLocator.log [06/03/2014 10:17:48 5f8] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [06/03/2014 10:17:48 5f8] wmain: Start of Computerconnector [06/03/2014 10:17:48 5f8] WARNING: CCmdLine::Parse - Failed to find arguement formatting in filename [C:\Users\admin\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\1UJKHC45\connect.exe]. [06/03/2014 10:17:48 5f8] wmain: Calling Computerconnector::ShowWizard() [06/03/2014 10:17:48 5f8] CComputerconnector::ShowWizard: Initializing common controls [06/03/2014 10:17:48 5f8] CComputerconnector::ShowWizard: Done initializing common controls [06/03/2014 10:17:48 5f8] Displaying the wizard [06/03/2014 10:17:48 5f8] CComputerconnector::AnotherInstallationErrorDlgProc: IDD_ANOTHER_INSTALLATION_ERR Page Initialization [06/03/2014 10:17:48 1a8] CComputerconnector::Run: Installation is ready to run [06/03/2014 10:17:48 1a8] InitTrace: Moving to trace file: C:\Users\admin\AppData\Local\Temp\Windows Server\Logs\ServerLocator.log [06/03/2014 10:20:07 9d4] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [06/03/2014 10:20:07 9d4] wmain: Start of Computerconnector [06/03/2014 10:20:07 9d4] WARNING: CCmdLine::Parse - Failed to find arguement formatting in filename [C:\Users\admin\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\9NMSN4CC\connect.exe]. [06/03/2014 10:20:07 9d4] wmain: Calling Computerconnector::ShowWizard() [06/03/2014 10:20:07 9d4] CComputerconnector::ShowWizard: Initializing common controls [06/03/2014 10:20:07 9d4] CComputerconnector::ShowWizard: Done initializing common controls [06/03/2014 10:20:07 9d4] Displaying the wizard [06/03/2014 10:20:07 9d4] CComputerconnector::AnotherInstallationErrorDlgProc: IDD_ANOTHER_INSTALLATION_ERR Page Initialization [06/03/2014 10:20:07 b58] CComputerconnector::Run: Installation is ready to run [06/03/2014 10:20:07 b58] InitTrace: Moving to trace file: C:\Users\admin\AppData\Local\Temp\Windows Server\Logs\ServerLocator.log