Hallo everybody,
I've configured DFSR replication between a Windows Server 2008 and a Windows Server 2012 to a static RPC port following this guide: http://blogs.technet.com/b/askds/archive/2009/07/16/configuring-dfsr-to-a-static-port-the-rest-of-the-story.aspx
The servers are located in different network segments divided by a firewall. I opened port 55555 for DFS replication.
The replication itself works fine and the health report (-> DFS Management -> Create Diagnostic Report ) reports no errors for the w2k8 box. But the same report says "Cannot retrieve report. The RPC server is unavailable" for the
w2k12 box.
While the report is generated I can see with a packet sniffer that packets send to random high ports are blocked by the firewall. This doesn't happen for the w2k8 box and shouldn't happen when the RPC port used for DFSR ist configured to 55555 (static).
It's somewhat irritating, that the health report shows errors while DFS replication is working fine.
Any ideas? Thanks!
Kind Regards
Christoph