Microsoft KB Archive/294237

= XCON: Exchange 2000 Message Transfer Agent Fails Remote Procedure Call Binds When You Are Using Exchange Server 5.5 Site Connector Override Credentials with a Blank Password =

Article ID: 294237

Article Last Modified on 2/27/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q294237



SYMPTOMS
When you try to connect two Exchange mixed sites by using the site connector's override credentials with a blank password, you may receive the following error message:

An RPC communications error occurred. Unable to bind over RPC. Locality Table (LTAB) index: 10, Windows 2000/MTA error code: 5. Comms error 5, Bind error 0, Remote Server Name GREG04 [MAIN BASE 1 500 %10] (14)



WORKAROUND
To work around this behavior:  Change the service account password so that it is not blank.For additional information, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

157780 XADM: How to Change the Service Account Password

 Reconfigure the site connector's override credentials to reflect the new password.



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server.

Additional query words: exch2kp2w

Keywords: kbbug kberrmsg kbnofix KB294237

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