Looking for solution to IISSYNC error code 53

Please help if you can :>

Scenario:
Two identical Compaq Proliant DL380 G3 servers running
Win2K Adv. server. Network Load Balancing is configured
for public (Intranet) network and private network is
configured for cluster state awareness (10.1.1.1 &
10.1.1.2).

These servers are running IIS with the OS and IIS metabase
residing on the local C: drives. All static web data and
ASP pages reside on a remote clustered server and are
referenced via a remote share.

The webmaster would like to continue publishing webs via
Frontpage. The task at hand is synchronizing the IIS
metabases after the webmaster publishes directly to one of
the nodes. For each ne publish, the intention is to
change load balance from 50%-50% to 100%-0%, then publish
to the offline node, test the newly-published web,
run "iissync" from the offline node, and change load
balance back to 50%-50%.

First Issue:
When I issue the command "iissync node2" from node1, node2
is unavailable because the node2 dedicated IP address is
unavailable from node1, and vice versa. Therefore, I
tried typing the command "iissync 10.1.1.2". It seemed to
get a little further but finally results in the following
error:

C:\WINNT\system32\inetsrv>iissync 10.1.1.2
Source : 337, scanned, Targets : (337,0),
Error replicating to target 10.1.1.2 : The network path
was not found. error code 53 ( 00000035
At least one target computer was not replicated
successfully

The error code 53 is not found in the one document that
Microsoft has on Technet describing the various errors
returned by IISSYNC.

I don't believe I have an issue with the IWAM and IUSR
accounts. They use the same domain account that has admin
rights on both servers (for testing) and the user can Log
on Locally.

I do not have intentions of using Application Center 2000
for this scenario. If I can find a resolution to this
IISSYNC utility, I will have greatly simplified my
installation.

Thanks in advance for you assistance!

Regards,
Ron Brodfuehrer

Error code is specific windows and it means network path
was not found to the system or box you are trying to
reach. Did you try pinging the box at all?
you can see the error message by typing the following
command at command prompt:

net helpmsg 53

hope this helps.

Prabhakar


 >-----Original Message-----
 >Please help if you can :>
 >
 >Scenario:
 >Two identical Compaq Proliant DL380 G3 servers running
 >Win2K Adv. server. Network Load Balancing is configured
 >for public (Intranet) network and private network is
 >configured for cluster state awareness (10.1.1.1 &
 >10.1.1.2).
 >
 >These servers are running IIS with the OS and IIS
metabase
 >residing on the local C: drives. All static web data and
 >ASP pages reside on a remote clustered server and are
 >referenced via a remote share.
 >
 >The webmaster would like to continue publishing webs via
 >Frontpage. The task at hand is synchronizing the IIS
 >metabases after the webmaster publishes directly to one
of
 >the nodes. For each ne publish, the intention is to
 >change load balance from 50%-50% to 100%-0%, then publish
 >to the offline node, test the newly-published web,
 >run "iissync" from the offline node, and change load
 >balance back to 50%-50%.
 >
 >First Issue:
 >When I issue the command "iissync node2" from node1,
node2
 >is unavailable because the node2 dedicated IP address is
 >unavailable from node1, and vice versa. Therefore, I
 >tried typing the command "iissync 10.1.1.2". It seemed
to
 >get a little further but finally results in the following
 >error:
 >
 >C:\WINNT\system32\inetsrv>iissync 10.1.1.2
 >Source : 337, scanned, Targets : (337,0),
 >Error replicating to target 10.1.1.2 : The network path
 >was not found. error code 53 ( 00000035
 >At least one target computer was not replicated
 >successfully
 >
 >The error code 53 is not found in the one document that
 >Microsoft has on Technet describing the various errors
 >returned by IISSYNC.
 >
 >I don't believe I have an issue with the IWAM and IUSR
 >accounts. They use the same domain account that has
admin
 >rights on both servers (for testing) and the user can Log
 >on Locally.
 >
 >I do not have intentions of using Application Center 2000
 >for this scenario. If I can find a resolution to this
 >IISSYNC utility, I will have greatly simplified my
 >installation.
 >
 >Thanks in advance for you assistance!
 >
 >Regards,
 >Ron Brodfuehrer
 >.
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