Yesterday I spent three hours troubleshooting a distributed transaction problem - ASP.NET just gave me a E_FAIL - which was not very helpful. After testing the connection with DTCPing - I got the message that both machines have the same CID value (a GUID identifying the DTC instance) - this was - well - understandable - as both machines are linked VMWare clones.

To get a new CID value for a machine run

msdtc -uninstall
msdtc -install

and reboot. At least this solved my problems..

11/28/2005 3:56:15 PM UTC    Comments [5]