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Cannot connect to the host's administrative share, two nic's

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We receive the following warning:

Cannot connect to the host's administrative share. Host: [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx].

The Virtual machine has two nic's, one public and one private.
The error mentions the public ip-address.

How can I tell Veeam to use the private address?

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Re: Cannot connect to the host's administrative share, two nic's

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I need to check with developers on how we determing IP address to use... I assume it's simple DNS query. Could you check what IP is returned by your DNS if you perform nslookup on the VM name, is it public or private?
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Re: Cannot connect to the host's administrative share, two nic's

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DNS returns a private address
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Re: Cannot connect to the host's administrative share, two nic's

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OK, here's what I found out:
- Veeam Backup gets first IP address returned by VMware API
- VMware API uses VMware Tools to collect the IP address data

Right now workaround is not clear, may be disabling/enabling the public address will help.

We will try to address this issue in the next update for you.
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Re: Cannot connect to the host's administrative share, two n

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Hi.

I get the same problem . But my virtual machine has only one nic. However, it is the vcenter and veeam server. Don't now if this is a problem...

Win2003std64 in english...

Creating snapshot
VssGAConn: Failed to connect. Errors:
"Cannot connect to the host's administrative share. Host: [xxx.xx.x.x]. Account: [OVH-VCENTER\Administrator].
Win32 error:No network provider accepted the given network path.
Code: 1203
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Re: Cannot connect to the host's administrative share, two n

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Are you able to open \\xxx.xx.x.x\admin$ with Windows Explorer while logged on to your Veeam Backup server as OVH-VCENTER\Administrator?
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Re: Cannot connect to the host's administrative share, two n

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Gostev wrote:Are you able to open \\xxx.xx.x.x\admin$ with Windows Explorer while logged on to your Veeam Backup server as OVH-VCENTER\Administrator?
No, the result is: No network provider accepted the given network path. But I guess I know why... This is a rented dedicated server. The network configuration is kind of special ... It uses the physical host gateway as gateway for the VMs but it is not in the same subnet as the virtual machine itself.

i.e. (fictive IPs):

Physical host IP: 172.30.12.8
Phyiscal gateway: 172.30.12.254

VM IP: 10.0.0.1
VM Gateway: 172.30.12.254
VM subnet mask: 255.255.255.255

If I use \\localhost\admin$ or \\hostname\admin$ it works.

For now, I have given up on VSS and uses vmware tools quiescing. But VSS could be an asset for sure.
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Re: Cannot connect to the host's administrative share, two n

Post by Vitaliy S. »

With an upcoming v5 release, you will no longer need a direct network connection to guest VMs in order for Veeam VSS to work. This would definitely be helpful in the current situation.
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Re: Cannot connect to the host's administrative share, two n

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Will the license be the same ? or should I wait for version 5 before to buy ?
When is it supposed to be released ?
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Re: Cannot connect to the host's administrative share, two n

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With VEEAM, all upgrades are "free" for customers with maintenance agreement in force - including major releases.
We are aiming to release it in late Q3.
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Re: Cannot connect to the host's administrative share, two n

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Have same error with VM Windows 2012 R2 and ms exchange web access cluster ("windows network balancin cluster, WNLB).
Veeam tryes to connect to asmin share via cluster address.
nslookup on veeam server by vm name returns correct (node private, not clustered) IP.

How to workaround it?

error message:

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14.05.2015 23:27:28 :: Processing Exchange-CA-01 Error: Cannot upload guest agent's files to the administrative share  [\\x.x.x.50\ADMIN$].
Cannot upload the VSS package.
Cannot copy file. Source file: [C:\Program Files\Veeam\Backup and Replication\Backup\VSS\VeeamGuestHelpers\VeeamVssSupport2008R2_X64.dll]. Target file: [\\x.x.x.50\ADMIN$\VeeamVssSupport\VeeamVssSupport.dll].
CopyFile() failed.
Win32 error:The system cannot find the file specified.
 Code: 2

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C:\>nslookup exchange-ca-01

Name:    exchange-ca-01.xx.xx
Address:  xx.xx.xx.36
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Re: Cannot connect to the host's administrative share, two n

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You can tell Veeam v8 not to use the cluster address by creating the following registry value on your Veeam B&R server:
Key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Veeam\Veeam Backup and Replication
Type: REG_MULTI_SZ (multi-string value)
Value name: NLBClusterPrimaryIps

The first line of the string should be the cluster IP address. If you have any other NLB clusters, add their cluster IP addresses as separate lines.
Do not add private node IP addresses to this registry value.

If you're running v7, you will need to upgrade before this will work.
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Re: Cannot connect to the host's administrative share, two n

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Thank you, alanbolte!
Problem is solved!
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