Hello, I have installed Sophos standalone & sophos auto-update on some of my Desktops.
I am having issues downloading updates.
If I set:
Address: Sophos
With my username and password, I get a timeout when trying to contact the server.
However, if I replace that address with: http://es-web.sophos.com/update/ - it works fine, at least it downloads and does stuff.
I've turned verbose logging on, and I think these might be the most relevant error:
Trace(2011-Jan-24 13:46:51): SDDSUpdateLocation caught exception from BeginSync: Cannot create stream (404) http://es-web-2.sophos.com/update/catalogue/.xml GetLastError returned 0
Trace(2011-Jan-24 13:46:51): TrySyncProduct<class AutoUpdate::SDDSUpdateLocation>, Ended - 0
Trace(2011-Jan-24 13:46:51): TrySyncProduct<class AutoUpdate::CIDUpdateLocation>, Started:
Trace(2011-Jan-24 13:46:51): TrySyncProduct<class AutoUpdate::CIDUpdateLocation>, creating update location
If I manually replace http://es-web.sophos.com/update/ by http://es-web-2.sophos.com/update/ , it also does not work. Am I right to assume that when I enter "Sophos" in the address, it tries to download from es-web-2, whhich appears to be down, when es-web works - or am I experiencing a completely different error?
Thanks for your help
Hi,
Based on the URL being accessed you're missing the string that comes from:
"C:\Program Files\Sophos\AutoUpdate\Config\TopLevelCatalogue.dat" (adjust to "Programdata" for Vista+)
that is appende.
http://es-web-2.sophos.com/update/catalogue/.xml
Is not quite right and should be something like:
http://es-web-2.sophos.com/update/catalogue/sdds.esc95.xml
Check if the above file TopLevelCatalogue.dat exists, if not create it (i'ts just a text file) and ensure it has:
sdds.esc95
in the file.
Maybe check a working machine to compare.
Thanks,
Jak