Remote debugging connection error: The RPC server is unavailable

Don Stewart

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Jul 5, 2005, 6:07:02 PM7/5/05

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I am trying to Remote debug my C# .NET 1.1 App on a TabletPC.
The Tablet has:
"Microsoft Windows XP"
"Tablet PC Edition 2005"
"Version 2002"
"Service Pack 2"

After installing the remote debugging tools from the VS .NET 2003 CD's,
when trying to connect to the tablet from my host machine it errors with:
"Unable to connect to the machine 'ENCITETABLET'.
The RPC server is unavailable"

I have added everyone one the network to the
Administrator and Debugger user groups on the tablet.

I AM able to access the tablets shared Hard drive accross the network.

I was even able to connect to it and see it's processes using VS once,
when I changed the Debug->Processes window
"Transport" to "TCP/IP (Native only)" and ran the
msvcmon.exe - (I think that's what it was) on the tablet.
I have since figured out that was only good for
debugging Native C++ and not C#

I tried uninstalling the remote debugging from the tablet
and manually re-installing it using the command line:
msiexec /qb+ /i D:\ENGLISH\VS.NET2003\vs_setup.msi NOVSUI=1
TRANSFORMS="D:\ENGLISH\VS.NET2003\Setup\Rmt9x.mst" SERVER_SETUP=1
ADDLOCAL=Visual_Studio_Analyzer_Server11
as specified in the help document.

Is there some file or process that should be running that I can look for?

Is there any other troubleshooting that I could perform to get this working?

Don Stewart
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Gary Chang[MSFT]

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Jul 6, 2005, 5:00:52 AM7/6/05

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Hi Don,

Based on your description, the problem is you cannot remote debug a VS2003
C# program in a Tablet PC(able to debug a native app), please let me know
if I have misunderstood anything.

Due to the error message--"The RPC server is unavailable", I think firstly
you need to make sure the "Remote Procedure Call (RPC)" service is not
disabled in your working machine.(You can find all the service statuses in
the Control Panel/Administrative Tools/Service MMC). Then please check the
MDM.exe process is running in your working machine.

Meantime, I suggest you also take a look on the following MSDN articles on
the issue of remote debugging in Windows XP SP2:

How to Enable Remote Debugging on Windows XP Service Pack 2
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnwxp/html/
xpsp2remotedebug.asp

How to turn on remote debugging in Windows XP Service Pack 2
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=833977

Wish these articles could help you on this issue!

Thanks!

Best regards,

Gary Chang
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Don Stewart

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Jul 6, 2005, 11:08:40 AM7/6/05

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It's working now,

Those Processes and Services were running.
The articles helped by instructing how to use the dcomcfg.exe to setup the
users on both machines and provided the DebuggerFirewall utility.

Thank you very much.
Don Stewart

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Gary Chang[MSFT]

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Jul 7, 2005, 2:20:04 AM7/7/05

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Hi Don,

That's great, we are glad to know you have resolved this problem.

Good Luck!