difficulty with installation of ProjectServer

[Guest]

Problem: Installing ProjectServer 2003 on two machines in dev environment.
Step 1: Set up Database server, installed SQL 2000, sp3a and Analysis
Services w/ sp3a.
Step 2: installed Windows SPS on second box, ran ProjectServer install for
SPS setup.
Step 3: on the Database server, installed Views portion of Project Server.

Now, I return to ProjectServer box and try to install the rest of Project
Server. The wizard asks for the location of the ViewDrop share that was
setup during Step 3. I give it the name of the share, and a username and
password which have access to that share. The error returned is "5: Access
is Denied".

I have verified the following.
1. I can get to the share on the Database box from the ProjectServer box by
using the run commnad.
2. The account under which I am trying to access the share is on the ACL for
that share, is not locked out and is valid on the domain.
3. When I look at the sessions manager on the second box, I see a session
created to the target share under MY username, not the account name I am
entering in the wizard.
4. If I cancel the wizard and start again, I get an error 1219 which states
that multiple connections to a share under a single user name are not
permitted. If I go to the Database box, kill the session in the session
manager, come back to the first box and rerun the wizard, I continue to get
1219. However, if I reboot the ProjectServer box, I go back to the error 5,
access is denied.

The kicker -- our service accounts are created in a dotted pattern, i.e.
domaninname\co.admin

Any takers on this one? Or am I missing something simple.

Thank you in advance

John Willard
VA Dept. of Transportation

 

[Gary L. Chefetz \(MVP\)]

J:

Make sure that "Everyone" has read/write access to the share.

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Gary L. Chefetz, MVP
"We wrote the book on Project Server
http://www.msprojectexperts.com

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[Guest]

Thanks, but that did not work. Same errors as before.

However, if I put the service account in the administrators group on both
servers, then logon to the Project Server as that account, then run the
install, it works. Microsoft -- is this the way it is supposed to be? This
seems very cumbersome and insecure.

John Willard
VA Dept of Transportation

 

[Gary L. Chefetz \(MVP\)]

The account you're logged in as to do the installation must be a member of
the local administrator's group on both servers. Is your account not a local
admin?

--

Gary L. Chefetz, MVP
"We wrote the book on Project Server
http://www.msprojectexperts.com

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[Guest]

My personal account was in the administrators group on both machines,
through my membership in the central admins group. However, I had to add the
service account under which Project Server would be running (I do not want
it running under my account -- I might be fired next week <G>). After adding
the service account to both admin groups, I logged onto the server on which
I was going to install PS2003 and ran the install. Now everything works OK.
I am of the opinion that the service account should be able to work with
lesser privileges. Something the folks at MS might look at for a revision?

Thanks for your help and for working with me through this problem.

John Willard
Senior Architect
Virginia Department of Transportation