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Conference pamsrc::objectbroker

Title:	ObjectBroker - BEA Systems' CORBA
Notice:	See note 3 for kits; note 5 for training; note 1134 for releases
Moderator:	TLE::PARODId

Created:	Tue Jul 11 1989
Last Modified:	Thu Jun 05 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	1413
Total number of notes:	6391

1381.0. "OBB_INV_NOTAUTHORIZED - How to troubleshoot ??" by VAXRIO::MAURICIO (Fertile Pectus) Thu Mar 13 1997 13:28

    
    I have a customer where we have DEC/EDI V3.1A, Oracle RBMS, and OBB
    V2.6 installed. We are having problems with putting CommandCenter 32
    (installed on Windows 95) to work with the server. The ODBC access
    to the Oracle Database works but the OBB access fails with:
    
    	OBB_INV_HOSTNOTFND (E), A host node could not be found to execute
    	the request
    	OBB_INV_NOTAUTHORIZED (E), Client user is not authorized to access
    	server
    
    The OBB Network Test works like a charm, but I can't make the
    CommandCenter 32 Network Test to work. I already checked the proxies at
    the servers, but everything looks OK:
    
    At the DEC/EDI Server:
    
    #obbshpxy
    
    Local user              Remote User             Remote Host
    decedi                  *                       rmaestrali
    decedi                  *                       ccevolo
    decedi                  *                       lhferreira
    decedi                  *                       cssfer0301
    
    At the Win95 Client OBB System Administrator Utility (node rmaestrali):
    
    #obbmsho -A -n cssfer0301
    OBB_INV_NOTAUTHORIZED (e), Client user is not authorized to access
    server. 
    
    At this installation, the customer
    DOES NOT have any DNS service, hence all host names are only defined via
    HOSTS file. They also DO NOT have any domain part on the host names.
    
    I followed the installation steps and the troubleshooting steps but
    could not find anything wrong. Is there any way to force the OBB Server
    to "Log" the request so we can check the remote host name he "thinks"
    is speaking with?
    
    Thanks for any help.
    
    mauricio

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
1381.1	One of these other topics may help	VAXCPU::michaud	Jeff Michaud - ObjectBroker	`Thu Mar 13 1997 15:17`	10
	Have you already looked through the replies to the other topics that have "OBB_INV_NOTAUTHORIZED" in their title? 1258 TAEC::BALLADELLI 1-JUL-1996 3 OBB_INV_NOTAUTHORIZED from Windows-NT 1277 HERON::SERAIN 22-JUL-1996 8 UNIX Client, NT Server, OBB_INV_NOTAUTHORIZED 1294 STAR::FREYBERGER 14-AUG-1996 1 Can't merge advertisements -- Getting OBB_INV_NOTAUTHORIZED errors. Plus this one in the obb development notesfile: 2044 METSYS::REID 23-NOV-1995 3 proxy and hostname case-sensitivity problems - OBB_INV_NOTAUTHORIZED (e), Client user is not authorized to access server.
1381.2	HOW TO pinpoint host name ??	VAXRIO::MAURICIO	Fertile Pectus	`Thu Mar 13 1997 16:40`	16
	Hello Jeff I'm not an OBB expert nor I pretend to be one. I'm just trying to install a Digital product DEC EDI that (unfortunately) needs OBB. I've read all the notes you've mentioned and tried all tests and modifications suggested, but no success. I need to put this DEC EDI up and running because I have a 500K EDI project at stake and I just want to know HOW TO pinpoint the proxy/authorization problem with OBB. Can anybody just fill in the blanks and tell me how to trace the host name OBB THINKS he is receiving ??? Thanks Maur�cio
1381.3		REQUE::BOWER	Peter Bower, ObjectBroker	`Thu Mar 13 1997 17:24`	12
	In V2.7, we added a way to log proxy failures so you can get more information. However, you are running V2.6. I suggest the following. First, try a total wildcard proxy hostname '' and remote username of '' and see if that works. If so, then you know everything else is ok and the proxy checking is failing somehow.
1381.4		LEMAN::DONALDSON	Froggisattva! Froggisattva!	`Mon Mar 17 1997 12:02`	10
	Also, it's worth (at the end of the other checks) to set trace on for the agent. This can become voluminous so restrict this to a little test. With the trace on you can see what the client announces itself as. John D. PS. In my opinion, if you don't know ObjectBroker then you shouldn't be asked to debug it. Go back to the EDI folks.
1381.5	catch-all proxy did it!	VAXRIO::MAURICIO	Fertile Pectus	`Tue Mar 25 1997 16:12`	9
	We defined a "catch-all" proxy and the test worked. As the only PCs running OBB are the ones running CommandCenter, I'll leave the catch-all proxy defined. Nevertheless it would be nice to undertand from WHERE OBB extracts the nodename information in order to easily pinpoint such problems. Regards Maur�cio
1381.6		REQUE::BOWER	Peter Bower, ObjectBroker	`Tue Mar 25 1997 22:31`	3
	OBB uses a gethostname call to get the host name information.