Hello NTBUGTRAQ.
Short summary:
This is the report of degrading/loosing functionality of RRAS mmc
snap-in after upgrading XPSP1 to XPSP2.
First some background.
Windows 2000 administrative tools are not for use on Windows XP.
This is fully documented and stated as "this is by design" in MSDN.
As a solution they advise you to install "Windows Server 2003
Administrative Tools Pack" for administering AD/DNS/DHCP etc. But,
in 2003 ATP they removed RRAS snap-in. So, if you are netwotk
administrator and you are using XP Pro as your workstation you have
to add RRAS snap-in from 2000 ATP by using command-line switches for
adminpack.msi for administering your 2000 RRAS servers. That's what
is written and that's what I have done. Everything worked. Until...
I have installed XP SP2.
After that, trying to run "Routing And Remote Access" snap-in I
receive the following messagebox:
Caption: "Remote Access Policies Error"
Text: "An error occured while trying to get information for an
attribute. The stub received bad data."
Buttons: OK
Pressing OK button results in another same messagebox. And so on,
and you have to end task via Task Manager. I suppose that this
behaviour is because of RPC/DCOM security enhancements in XP SP2 but
my RPC debugging skills are on 0/-1 level.
I have tried the registry fixes mentioned in
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;824835 -
"Certain IDL constructs are marshaled and unmarshaled incorrectly by
RPC".
and
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;838191
"List of Remote Procedure Call (RPC) fixes in Windows XP Service
Pack 2"
Still no luck. Can anyone shed the light on this, or show me the way
for further debug? Maybe the easiest way will be the using old RPC
dlls with this only snap-in?
Thanks.
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; NKritsky
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