Issue
This problem happens when all the machines located in the same domain, but there is something wrong with the domain configuration, you can also access the data directory under Microsoft SQL server and you can ping the server machine ,even you can update the database successfully, but when you set up the workstation you will fail and get an error like this "Continuum Initialization encountered a problem, need to be closed......"
Environment
Windows 2000 server sp4
SQL server 2000 sp4
Windows XP professional
Continuum1.52
Cause
- There might be something wrong in the configuration of the domain server
- Continuum 1.52 can't be supported by Windows XP
Resolution
- Quit out all the machines from the domain and add them into a workgroup to verify the problem caused by wrong domain configuration.
- Rebuild the machine and install Continuum 1.52 on Windows 2000
- Make sure you can set workstation correctly on Windows 2000 and have all the machine in a workgroup
- Re-configure the domain correctly
- Re-install SQL server on the server machine
- Try to set up the workstation again.