HiI am trying to deploy the SCCM client to our remote site. It has worked up until now.I have set up client push but the machines are not installing the client. The client service account is a member of local admins and by definaition domain admins also. I get the following in ccm.log: ---> Attempting to connect to administrative share '\\XXX0002655.XXX.co.uk\admin$' using account 'XXX\SCCM_Service' SMS_CLIENT_CONFIG_MANAGER 04/02/2010 11:31:15 3200 (0x0C80) ---> Attempting to connect to administrative share '\\XXX0002655.XXX.co.uk\admin$' using machine account. SMS_CLIENT_CONFIG_MANAGER 04/02/2010 11:31:15 3200 (0x0C80) ---> Failed to connect to \\XXX0002655.XXX.co.uk\admin$ using machine account (5) SMS_CLIENT_CONFIG_MANAGER 04/02/2010 11:31:15 3200 (0x0C80) ---> ERROR: Failed to connect to the \\XXX0002655.XXX.co.uk\admin$ share using account 'Machine Account' SMS_CLIENT_CONFIG_MANAGER 04/02/2010 11:31:15 3200 (0x0C80) ---> Attempting to connect to administrative share '\\XXX0002655\admin$' using account 'XXX\SCCM_Service' SMS_CLIENT_CONFIG_MANAGER 04/02/2010 11:31:15 3200 (0x0C80) ---> Attempting to connect to administrative share '\\XXX0002655\admin$' using machine account. SMS_CLIENT_CONFIG_MANAGER 04/02/2010 11:31:15 3200 (0x0C80) ---> Failed to connect to \\XXX0002655\admin$ using machine account (5) SMS_CLIENT_CONFIG_MANAGER 04/02/2010 11:31:15 3200 (0x0C80) ---> ERROR: Failed to connect to the \\XXX0002655\admin$ share using account 'Machine Account' SMS_CLIENT_CONFIG_MANAGER 04/02/2010 11:31:15 3200 (0x0C80) ---> ERROR: Unable to access target machine for request: "S1HL4Q9K", machine name: "XXX0002655", access denied or invalid network path. SMS_CLIENT_CONFIG_MANAGER 04/02/2010 11:31:16 3200 (0x0C80)I can connect to the admin$ share from the server.Do you think it has anything to do with having to rebuild the server (same name and ip details) after a failed SP2 upgrade?

I can connect to the admin$ share from the server. Have you used the account "XXX\SCCM_Service" for connecting to the client?

Can RDP into the client as SCCM_Service but I cannot authenticate against admin$ even thoguh the SCCM_Service account is a local admin on that machine? (Via its membership in the domain administrators group? :S

unlocked the SCCM_Service account (I did check this before and it wasnt locked out....hmmm) but it is still giving access denied to the machine account:---> Failed to connect to \\XXX0002655\admin$ using machine account (5) SMS_CLIENT_CONFIG_MANAGER 04/02/2010 13:11:13 2236 (0x08BC)How can I resolve this?

That's definitely not a problem of ConfigMgr. You have to make sure that you can connect to admin$ on the remote machines (using the client push installation account). Double-check the permissions, group memberships, policies, firewall settings etc.

I am now getting another error: a brand new machine never in AD:Received request: "3YU6L17H" for machine name: "SCCM08022010" on queue: "Incoming". SMS_CLIENT_CONFIG_MANAGER 08/02/2010 14:38:51 5036 (0x13AC)Stored request "3YU6L17H", machine name "SCCM08022010", in queue "Processing". SMS_CLIENT_CONFIG_MANAGER 08/02/2010 14:38:51 5036 (0x13AC)======>Begin Processing request: "3YU6L17H", machine name: "SCCM08022010" SMS_CLIENT_CONFIG_MANAGER 08/02/2010 14:38:51 6648 (0x19F8)---> Attempting to connect to administrative share '\\SCCM08022010.sea.co.uk\admin$' using account 'SEA\SCCM_Service' SMS_CLIENT_CONFIG_MANAGER 08/02/2010 14:38:51 6648 (0x19F8)---> Connected to administrative share on machine SCCM08022010.sea.co.uk using account 'SEA\SCCM_Service' SMS_CLIENT_CONFIG_MANAGER 08/02/2010 14:38:51 6648 (0x19F8)---> Attempting to make IPC connection to share <\\SCCM08022010\IPC$> SMS_CLIENT_CONFIG_MANAGER 08/02/2010 14:38:51 6648 (0x19F8)---> Searching for SMSClientInstall.* under '\\SCCM08022010.sea.co.uk\admin$\' SMS_CLIENT_CONFIG_MANAGER 08/02/2010 14:38:51 6648 (0x19F8)---> Unable to connect to WMI (r) on remote machine "SCCM08022010", error = 0x8004100e. SMS_CLIENT_CONFIG_MANAGER 08/02/2010 14:38:51 6648 (0x19F8)---> Creating \ VerifyingCopying exsistance of destination directory \\SCCM08022010\admin$\ccmsetup. SMS_CLIENT_CONFIG_MANAGER 08/02/2010 14:38:51 6648 (0x19F8)---> Copying client files to \\SCCM08022010\admin$\ccmsetup. SMS_CLIENT_CONFIG_MANAGER 08/02/2010 14:38:51 6648 (0x19F8)---> Copying file "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Configuration Manager\bin\I386\MobileClient.tcf" to "\\SCCM08022010\admin$\ccmsetup\MobileClient.tcf" SMS_CLIENT_CONFIG_MANAGER 08/02/2010 14:38:51 6648 (0x19F8)---> Copying file "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Configuration Manager\bin\I386\ccmsetup.exe" to "\\SCCM08022010\admin$\ccmsetup\ccmsetup.exe" SMS_CLIENT_CONFIG_MANAGER 08/02/2010 14:38:51 6648 (0x19F8)---> Created service "ccmsetup" on machine "SCCM08022010". SMS_CLIENT_CONFIG_MANAGER 08/02/2010 14:38:52 6648 (0x19F8)---> Started service "ccmsetup" on machine "SCCM08022010". SMS_CLIENT_CONFIG_MANAGER 08/02/2010 14:38:52 6648 (0x19F8)---> Deleting SMS Client Install Lock File '\\SCCM08022010.sea.co.uk\admin$\SMSClientInstall.SEA' SMS_CLIENT_CONFIG_MANAGER 08/02/2010 14:38:52 6648 (0x19F8)---> Completed request "3YU6L17H", machine name "SCCM08022010". SMS_CLIENT_CONFIG_MANAGER 08/02/2010 14:38:52 6648 (0x19F8)Deleted request "3YU6L17H", machine name "SCCM08022010" SMS_CLIENT_CONFIG_MANAGER 08/02/2010 14:38:52 6648 (0x19F8)<======End request: "3YU6L17H", machine name: "SCCM08022010". SMS_CLIENT_CONFIG_MANAGER 08/02/2010 14:38:52 6648 (0x19F8)I think the line of note is: Unable to connect to WMI (r) on remote machine "SCCM08022010", error = 0x8004100e. SMS_CLIENT_CONFIG_MANAGEROn the machine, SCCM is copying to ccmsetup then deleting :( any advice?

---> Started service "ccmsetup" on machine "SCCM08022010". So there must be a ccmsetup.log. Anything useful in there?