Refresh Failed, RPC server is unavailable

Question

_{Wednesday, November 27, 2013 3:40 AM}

I am having problems with 2 of my servers not being refreshed to my domain controller; reasons are stated in the title with also "WinRM firewall exception for public profiles limits access to remote computers within the same local subnet." I am not exactly sure what the latter means but I have tried a few different ways to resolve this issue and still no luck.  This is what I have and have done:

What I have:

• 1 Domain controller which is a Standard 2012 R2
• my DC is also a DHCP server and DNS server with 100 addresses I can give out to my computers and my 2 servers are within the 100 addresses
• The 2 other servers are regular standard 2012 R2s as well with no features or roles added; they have been added to the domain
• the 2 servers are also online in VMware while the Domain Controller is installed on bare metal

What I have done:

• I have added the 2 servers to my domain controller before and everything was fine; I could refresh my domain controller and under the 'All Servers' tab of server manager for my domain controller my 2 servers were online and activated and no fails occurred.  
• I would shutdown my domain controller and servers down every night and boot them back up everyday to practice then one day I have this problem.
• I tried to remove and re-add the servers but still no luck
• I tried rebooting both the DC and 2 other servers
• I disabled firewall on my DC
• I tried to turn ON network discovery on the DC but for some reason it does not save as ON
• I can ping my servers from my DC

I am stumped and would like some advice.  Thank you

All replies (2)

_{Friday, November 29, 2013 6:20 AM ✅Answered}

Hi,

Regarding the RPC server is unavailable, we could start with the links below:

Troubleshooting RPC Errors

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2007.07.howitworks.aspx

Windows Server Troubleshooting: "The RPC server is unavailable"

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/4494.windows-server-troubleshooting-the-rpc-server-is-unavailable.aspx

Hope this helps,

Best regards

Michael

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_{Thursday, November 28, 2013 7:47 AM}

anyone?