KB181629 - SMS: "Unexpected Error Creating the Unique Id File" Occurs

Article ID: 181629

Article Last Modified on 6/14/2005

Microsoft Systems Management Server 1.2 Standard Edition

This article was previously published under Q181629

SUMMARY

When you run Runsms.bat to install the Microsoft Systems Management Server client, you may receive the following error message:

Unexpected error creating the Unique Id file

MORE INFORMATION

A permissions problem may exist. To confirm whether this is the case, check the following:

The user who is logged on to the domain is logged on as at least a Domain User.
The SMS_SHR share on the logon server has the permissions for both Administrators and Everyone set at Full Control.
The Sms\Logon.srv\Smsid subdirectory on the logon server has the permissions for both Administrators and Everyone set at Change.

For additional information, please see the following article(s) in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

154936 SMS Displays # When Attempting to Create SMS Client

127052 SMS Unique ID (SMSID) Allocation

168543 SMS: InocuLAN 4.0 May Interfere with SMS Client Setup

Additional query words: smsconfig smssetup

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