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Possible causes of DCOM error on Citrix?

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by fractalpat

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Greetings. Just started a new job 2 days ago, working for an NGO. Connected to a Citrix MetaFrame server, and logged out. About the same time, the following error was logged in the System Event log:

Type: Error
Source: DCOM
EventID: 10002
Description: Access denied attempting to launch a DCOM server. The server is: {D485...5D} The user is , SID=...

Of course, the username was mine!

The desktop I connected from was XP Pro, the Citrix server was 1.8 (2000 SP3). No other events with my name on. The problem was that, sometime after I connected [and generated the error message], users lost access via Citrix and didn't get it back until the server was restarted. All I did was connect, log on, pop up the Start menu to see what was there, and log off again.

Anyone shed any light so I can regain some trust around here?

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by saihib

Who gave you your permissions? 99.9% of the time that users can't connect is a rights issue.

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