This may not be a viable option but I wanted to hear the ideas of the GeoNet first. I have ArcGIS Server (Standard Workgroup 10.4) installed and licensed on a local computer on my company's local area network. I can get to the server manager on this computer by going to :6443/arcgis/manager/site.html .
How can I access this server manager from another computer on the same network? I know the PC's local IP address and have tried all sorts of combinations of accessing this from another PC but have had no luck. I can also see the PC's files by typing in \\and the IP address, etc.. Is this sort of thing possible?
I can see the entire C drive on that machine if I look in a Windows Explorer folder by typing in \\192.168.0.126 . Everything is "shared" on that PC but I am not sure how to get in it from another PC on the same network.
EDIT: btw, that works for me for both the manager and the admin, if I use the machine name (maybe the IP but not the IP), but not if I use the web URL since I have that disabled for the web adapter. Also I should note that I am admin on all my machines with my domain account, so that part isn't is eliminated on my mahcines. just fyi.
I appreciate the extra info. I am excited to try this /admin/login route but unfortunately I just realized that I will not have a VPN connection or a LAN connection until next week sometime. (though, it does work if I remote into the PC and try it!) But, to be clear, are you saying you use the computer's name as opposed to the computer's IP address in place of ""?
Yes, the machine/computer name and the port for both the admin and manager. At least on our network, I would get an error when using the ip....my guess is it is due to the SSL certificate. As for my mentioning the web adaptor not working, that is by design, (recommended for security) that is, I have that disabled on purpose, so to manage, I have to be within our domain (although VPN remote works, since that gets me into the domain).
also, for kicks, try it with http and :6080 My guess is it knows you should be https, and would definitly be need isf you have security enabled, but it's been a while since I did the install (but hope to test 10.4.1 very soon). and if you do have security in place, do you have a SSL installed? Self signed? Seems like I had to have all that, but again, been awhile and our production is still 10.2.2.
My main issue is that I want to publish my data to this 'server' from a different computer than what the server is on. Though, I'm not sure how to make that initial connection to the 'server' computer (which is why I am trying to log into server Manager just to see how to make this connection).
Have you tried that yet? That is the connection you need to publish from another machine. But make ysure you have those rights to publish with whatever account you use in the connection file. If your personal account doesn't have the rights, you can connect as the AGS administrator.
If you have to change your password often, I would recommend NOT storing your user/pass, because if it's like our system, if there are 3 bad attempts, we get locked out and network services staff need to do an unlock. For some reason, these seem to cause an issue, even if you aren't accessing it.
Just fyi, I used ArcMap 10.3.1 on my local machine to publish to an ArcGIS Server 10.2.2 on a server (although that shouldn't matter) just now with this process, and it when smooth, although I had to register the data, which is easily done the the analyze window when publishing. I did this to my dev machine, which has expired ssl certs, and it gave me warnings, (3 I think) but did it just the same. I'm now able to see it in REST directory.
If I hit "fix connection problems" and then "more details" the message reads "localhost is not set up to accept connections on port 6080" (if from a remote computer it is "isn't responding to connections on port 6443). All of the applicable ports have been added to the firewall. The server manager worked before changing the username! I did a restart of the computer, though, so maybe some weird security was pushed by IT!? I have not installed IIS so there is no inetpub folder...I'm not sure where it is looking for localhost.
Hmm, so I checked the services and the "ArcGIS Server" service was stopped. It is set to automatic startup. I started the service but after about a minute it stops again. I do not see a javaw.exe process. The arcgis.exe (argis daemon) is running. The "ArcGIS License Manager" service is also running. The server OS is windows 2012 R2.
I am attempting to use the domain account on re-install. The first time I installed Server I set it up to use a local "arcgis" account and I had it working. It is the switch to the domain user that is causing the problems. I have checked that I can log into the server using the domain account, so it seems to be valid. Is there some sort of permission issue going on somewhere?
It could be a permissions problem, but definitely an account problem which you're probably already assuming. Does the Event Viewer tell you anything? If you've already given full control permissions for the domain account against the C:\arcgisserver and C:\Program Files\ArcGIS folders, these types of problems are a bit difficult to troubleshoot through forums. You may want to reach out to your IT staff or Technical Support, but I'd first start with the Event Viewer and see if that is returning any errors.
Ok, I uninstalled Server again, and then stopped all of the services (I still had License Manager installed and running). I deleted all local users that I had tried setting up as the ArcGIS account (I was trying a few things to get it to work). I then rebooted the computer and ran the setup as an administrator (I was logged in as an administrator, but newer versions of windows seem to want you to do this anyway!). I entered my domain user as the ArcGIS user and this time it worked! Not sure what happened on the last setup. I will finish re-setting everything up and if I have any issues will do a different post.
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