Project Server 2K3 & SharePoint 2.0 Services Connection Issue

[Dok]

Hey Y'all,

*Forgive if I'm posting in the wrong group*

Throwing myself at the mercy of this group, as I've exhausted the extent of
my patience ferreting on the web regarding the subject. It's pretty apparent,
to me anywho, that I've fouled something up somewhere with the Central
Adminsitration user/group for reasons I'll outline shortly. Quickly, here's
my setup:

No domain per se [using two networked servers behind a firewall, NETBIOS
takes care of identity locally]

Server #1
------------
* Windows 2K3 Server Enterprise w/ SP2
* IIS 6
* SharePoint Services 2.0
* Project Server 2K3

Server #2
------------
* Windows 2K3 Server w/ SP2
* MS SQL Server 2K5 Enterprise / Analysis Services / Reporting Services

This all works quite well, with the exception of this:
1) After a challenge/response for machine access, I access and log onto PWA
with Administrator account successfully.
2) Click the 'Admin' link at the top for administration of PWA.
3) Click 'Manage Windows SharePoint Services" on the menu to the left.
4) I enter all the required information for each of the entry boxes, and
verify that the links I've entered actually work by completing steps 1 thru 4
of the verification checks - they all resolve correctly.
5) Click 'OK' to save the changes....

No Joyâ„¢... and a message box with the following appears:

"The specified Windows account must be a valid user on the specified
SharePoint server computer. Furthermore, the Windows account must be in the
SharePoint Central Administrators group.

To add the Windows account to the SharePoint Central Administrators group,
navigate to the SharePoint Central Administration page and add the account in
the SharePoint Administrator group."

I'm -><- close, and I don't wanna go tearing at things or completely rebuild
all this if it's not necessary, thereby removing the possibility of
performing some cement-headed cockpit error trying to 'fix' this that would
require rebuilding it anyhow. Again, forgive me for playing the fool, and I
appreciate all the input in advance...

Thanx Gang!

 

[Sander]

Hi Dok,

When you are filling al the fields for the configuration, are you able to
select a site template? sometimes when it cannot connect to the sharepoint
services, the select list has no options. this can indicate a network setting
issue (eg proxy settings).
For options to setup then see following url
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/projservadmin/HA011653661033.aspx

hope this helps a little

 

[Dok]

Thanx so much for the speedy reply Sander. I'm going to follow this down into
the warren see how deep this hole gets. ;-)

IIRC, there weren't any templates listed as you've referred to. While
testing this configuration, it appears the installation has issues w/ the
Tasks, Risks, Documents, etal; ALL stuff that WSS is evidently governs - the
error message thrown pretty much verfies that...

So, again, let me "run herd" on this and attempt to get this worked out.
I'll certainly post anything back here that comes about based on this latest
round of discovery...

Hi Dok,

When you are filling al the fields for the configuration, are you able to
select a site template? sometimes when it cannot connect to the sharepoint
services, the select list has no options. this can indicate a network setting
issue (eg proxy settings).
For options to setup then see following url
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/projservadmin/HA011653661033.aspx

hope this helps a little

Hey Y'all,

*Forgive if I'm posting in the wrong group*

Throwing myself at the mercy of this group, as I've exhausted the extent of
my patience ferreting on the web regarding the subject. It's pretty apparent,
to me anywho, that I've fouled something up somewhere with the Central
Adminsitration user/group for reasons I'll outline shortly. Quickly, here's
my setup:

No domain per se [using two networked servers behind a firewall, NETBIOS
takes care of identity locally]

Server #1
------------
* Windows 2K3 Server Enterprise w/ SP2
* IIS 6
* SharePoint Services 2.0
* Project Server 2K3

Server #2
------------
* Windows 2K3 Server w/ SP2
* MS SQL Server 2K5 Enterprise / Analysis Services / Reporting Services

This all works quite well, with the exception of this:
1) After a challenge/response for machine access, I access and log onto PWA
with Administrator account successfully.
2) Click the 'Admin' link at the top for administration of PWA.
3) Click 'Manage Windows SharePoint Services" on the menu to the left.
4) I enter all the required information for each of the entry boxes, and
verify that the links I've entered actually work by completing steps 1 thru 4
of the verification checks - they all resolve correctly.
5) Click 'OK' to save the changes....

No Joyâ„¢... and a message box with the following appears:

"The specified Windows account must be a valid user on the specified
SharePoint server computer. Furthermore, the Windows account must be in the
SharePoint Central Administrators group.

To add the Windows account to the SharePoint Central Administrators group,
navigate to the SharePoint Central Administration page and add the account in
the SharePoint Administrator group."

I'm -><- close, and I don't wanna go tearing at things or completely rebuild
all this if it's not necessary, thereby removing the possibility of
performing some cement-headed cockpit error trying to 'fix' this that would
require rebuilding it anyhow. Again, forgive me for playing the fool, and I
appreciate all the input in advance...

Thanx Gang!

 

[Dok]

Replying to my own posts... sheez...

Well, the update. The issue I was having was ultimately a Kerberos/NTLM
related one, and when I straightened that all out I just had to reset a
couple of things, tweak and FINALLY got this &*#&$#@ configuration to do "the
Dance"...

Sander - I ran the proxycfg cli stuff and it helped. I got a different error
from the SharePoint connection and that let me to the security issue. So
thanx SO MUCH for the heads-up on that one...

I reset the site at the cli too, or rather added the root directory back
into the database, I think the latter. I also had to add the root "/" as an
Explicit inclusion, and the "/ProjectServer" and "MSADC" directories as
excluded in SharePoint on the virtual server, and I was pretty much off and
running @ that point...

I've just gotta get the Outlook and Project Professional client
collaboration parts setup and worked out (haven't started that yet), and all
will be well in Mudville...

Hey Y'all,

*Forgive if I'm posting in the wrong group*

Throwing myself at the mercy of this group, as I've exhausted the extent of
my patience ferreting on the web regarding the subject. It's pretty apparent,
to me anywho, that I've fouled something up somewhere with the Central
Adminsitration user/group for reasons I'll outline shortly. Quickly, here's
my setup:

No domain per se [using two networked servers behind a firewall, NETBIOS
takes care of identity locally]

Server #1
------------
* Windows 2K3 Server Enterprise w/ SP2
* IIS 6
* SharePoint Services 2.0
* Project Server 2K3

Server #2
------------
* Windows 2K3 Server w/ SP2
* MS SQL Server 2K5 Enterprise / Analysis Services / Reporting Services

This all works quite well, with the exception of this:
1) After a challenge/response for machine access, I access and log onto PWA
with Administrator account successfully.
2) Click the 'Admin' link at the top for administration of PWA.
3) Click 'Manage Windows SharePoint Services" on the menu to the left.
4) I enter all the required information for each of the entry boxes, and
verify that the links I've entered actually work by completing steps 1 thru 4
of the verification checks - they all resolve correctly.
5) Click 'OK' to save the changes....

No Joyâ„¢... and a message box with the following appears:

"The specified Windows account must be a valid user on the specified
SharePoint server computer. Furthermore, the Windows account must be in the
SharePoint Central Administrators group.

To add the Windows account to the SharePoint Central Administrators group,
navigate to the SharePoint Central Administration page and add the account in
the SharePoint Administrator group."

I'm -><- close, and I don't wanna go tearing at things or completely rebuild
all this if it's not necessary, thereby removing the possibility of
performing some cement-headed cockpit error trying to 'fix' this that would
require rebuilding it anyhow. Again, forgive me for playing the fool, and I
appreciate all the input in advance...

Thanx Gang!

 

[Sander]

good to hear everything is cleared up on this one.

Sander

Replying to my own posts... sheez...

Well, the update. The issue I was having was ultimately a Kerberos/NTLM
related one, and when I straightened that all out I just had to reset a
couple of things, tweak and FINALLY got this &*#&$#@ configuration to do "the
Dance"...

Sander - I ran the proxycfg cli stuff and it helped. I got a different error
from the SharePoint connection and that let me to the security issue. So
thanx SO MUCH for the heads-up on that one...

I reset the site at the cli too, or rather added the root directory back
into the database, I think the latter. I also had to add the root "/" as an
Explicit inclusion, and the "/ProjectServer" and "MSADC" directories as
excluded in SharePoint on the virtual server, and I was pretty much off and
running @ that point...

I've just gotta get the Outlook and Project Professional client
collaboration parts setup and worked out (haven't started that yet), and all
will be well in Mudville...

Hey Y'all,

*Forgive if I'm posting in the wrong group*

Throwing myself at the mercy of this group, as I've exhausted the extent of
my patience ferreting on the web regarding the subject. It's pretty apparent,
to me anywho, that I've fouled something up somewhere with the Central
Adminsitration user/group for reasons I'll outline shortly. Quickly, here's
my setup:

No domain per se [using two networked servers behind a firewall, NETBIOS
takes care of identity locally]

Server #1
------------
* Windows 2K3 Server Enterprise w/ SP2
* IIS 6
* SharePoint Services 2.0
* Project Server 2K3

Server #2
------------
* Windows 2K3 Server w/ SP2
* MS SQL Server 2K5 Enterprise / Analysis Services / Reporting Services

This all works quite well, with the exception of this:
1) After a challenge/response for machine access, I access and log onto PWA
with Administrator account successfully.
2) Click the 'Admin' link at the top for administration of PWA.
3) Click 'Manage Windows SharePoint Services" on the menu to the left.
4) I enter all the required information for each of the entry boxes, and
verify that the links I've entered actually work by completing steps 1 thru 4
of the verification checks - they all resolve correctly.
5) Click 'OK' to save the changes....

No Joyâ„¢... and a message box with the following appears:

"The specified Windows account must be a valid user on the specified
SharePoint server computer. Furthermore, the Windows account must be in the
SharePoint Central Administrators group.

To add the Windows account to the SharePoint Central Administrators group,
navigate to the SharePoint Central Administration page and add the account in
the SharePoint Administrator group."

I'm -><- close, and I don't wanna go tearing at things or completely rebuild
all this if it's not necessary, thereby removing the possibility of
performing some cement-headed cockpit error trying to 'fix' this that would
require rebuilding it anyhow. Again, forgive me for playing the fool, and I
appreciate all the input in advance...

Thanx Gang!