Can't connect to new hosts

[aboatman]

I’ve been using batchpatch for a while, and all of a sudden, I can’t interact with newly added hosts. Hosts that I have previously added I can still connect to normally. If I add a host either to an existing bps or a new one, I can’t so much as ping it. Ping says “Could not find host,” Get OS says “The RPC server is unavailable,” yet any host I had added before this problem started I can do anything I want. Outside of batchpatch, I can ping and connect with psexec as expected. Did I change a setting somewhere and not realize it?

Thanks for the help.

[doug]

I’m guessing the issue is that you are copying hosts from an Excel sheet instead of just typing them in or copying them from a text file? In the last release of BatchPatch we made a slight change to how new hosts are parsed from the “Add hosts” dialog, and part of that change [accidentally] made BatchPatch worse at stripping off extraneous characters such as tab characters (t). When you copy hosts directly from Excel, for example, it adds hidden t chars to the end of the host names. This is why BatchPatch can’t ping those hosts. The good news is that we have fixed this in the next release, which will be published pretty soon (probably within a couple weeks). However, in the mean time the solution is to copy host names from a text file instead of something like Excel, or to manually type in the host names.

Let me know how it goes.

-Doug

[aboatman]

Yep, that was it. Thanks so much for the fast response!

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