BCM on SBS, firewall, etc

[Dima]

Hello,

Upon sharing the BCM v2 database in Outlook on SBS, I recieve this message:

"There are no more endpoints available from the endpoint mapper."

I've done the searching and this is an existing issue that, apparently has
to do with the standard Windows Firewall being disabled on SBS because of
RRAS. My question is: can I get areound the error above *without* enabling
the Windows Firewall on our SBS server? I don't wish to disable RRAS, as we
need it.

Thanks for any replies,

 

[Leonid S. Knyshov]

Hello,

Upon sharing the BCM v2 database in Outlook on SBS, I recieve this
message:

"There are no more endpoints available from the endpoint mapper."

I've done the searching and this is an existing issue that, apparently has
to do with the standard Windows Firewall being disabled on SBS because of
RRAS. My question is: can I get areound the error above *without* enabling
the Windows Firewall on our SBS server? I don't wish to disable RRAS, as
we
need it.

Well, first of all Outlook should never be installed on SBS directly as that
will likely break your Exchange server.

Did you run the SVRNETCN tool?

 

[Luther]

Although Outlook and Exchange are incompatible on the same machine,
several people have successfully turned off Exchange, installed Outlook
and BCM, created and shared a database, removed Outlook, and then
turned Exchange back on. That appears to be the least messy way to get
the shared db onto a server.

The endpoint mapper error is due to the some rpc software not finding
the port it expected. A firewall closing that port can definately cause
this error, but I recal there was also some other cause/bug that was
fixed by a patch. You may want to check this newsgroup for earlier
solutions to this problem.