Dear experts,
I decided to test what does it mean to perform a system copy with parallel export/import and now I am
completely stuck due to a stupid windows error !!
I am using 2 Windows 2008 R2 VMs with MSSQL Server 2012.
I am using a directory from the source system, which I have mapped as a network drive in the target
system. Everything seemed to be working, somehow, until the Import ABAP phase started. It immediately
gave me an error about the migration key, which immediately made me very suspicious. After carefully
checking logs, I saw that sapinst is switching to the <SID>adm user in order to execute the R3load command
for checking the key and it gives some permission error.
I have launched cmd.exe under <SID>adm and I was shocked to find out, that the drive X: under which
I have mapped the shared folder from the source system is not present !!!!
I was checking different permission things, up to my modest Windows understanding (I am a unix guy)
and on the original system it has all the permissions for Everyone...
I connected with mstsc.exe to another session as <SID>adm. The X: drive was not there, I attempted to map
it again, it somehow showed the mapping as already existing, so then I started to see it in my RDC session,
BUT ONLY THERE !!!! The session where I have sapinst running still doesn't see X: under <SID>adm !!!
I have tried to launch Explorer under <SID>adm and try to map the drive once again from there, but it
doesn't work:
C:\>runas /user:<SID>adm "c:\windows\explorer.exe /separate"
Enter the password for <SID>adm:
Attempting to start c:\windows\explorer.exe /separate as user "HOST\<SID>adm" ...
well, attempting is fine, but nothing happens then... :-(
Also, another plague that's been tearing my nerves is, that many many times the sapinst window is just
disappearing, showing the following error in the sapinst console window:
Apr 3, 2016 1:59:51 PM [Error]: Closing connection. Reconnect is possible.
and then I would need to launch sapinstgui.exe again in order to get back in the game. I have been googling
for this and I didn't find any solution :-/
Please kindly advise on how to proceed ?
Many thanks in advance!