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Sophos agent installation on a workgroup machine is giving an error

Chaba

Hi All,

   I am trying to install the Sophos agent on a win2003 server (Workgroup) from a Sophos management server (Which is in a domain).

I am getting the error  "The specified credentials are invalid" where i am using the Local administrator account.

On the username i tried "Administrator" , "Machinename\Administrator" and  "Ipaddress\administrator" nothing worked.

Please let me know what other troubleshooting steps that i should follow for it to work.

Regards,

Chaba

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    Hello Chaba

    searching this board for domain and workgroup  currently yields three articles and searching for credentials and domain 14 (yours included). I suggest the following threads: and  which should help you solving the problem.

    And nitpicking: The subject sounds like an installation problem on the endpoint. Mentioning SEC and/or Protect Computers would have been clearer.

    Christian

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      Hi,

      is this a problem for one or few machines, or do you plan to do a large rollout onto servers? Since you don't seem to use a domain, I guess that you need a solution to fix one or few machines.

      If you copy the directory \\<sophosserver>\SophosUpdate\CIDs\S000\SAVSCFXP onto the client-machine and execute the setup from there, you get a working first-time installation. Make sure that "Sophos Remote Manamagement System" is also installed - if not, you can add this by navigating into the subfolder "RMS" and double-clicking the .msi-file.

      After this manual installation, the computer should be shown as connected in the Enterprise console and can be managed.

      Best regards,

      Detlev

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        Hey Chaba

        Make sure there is an account name which is identical on the both servers with the same password and then when protecting the machine via a push install just put the "accountname" with no ipaddress or domain name information.

        http://www.sophos.com/support/knowledgebase/article/29728.html

        Hope that helps.

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