Error: "RPC server is unavailable" or "Access is
denied" during remote execution
The user receives the following error message when executing a
automated script remotely:
The RPC server is
unavailable
Access is denied
Note: Executing the script locally works
correctly
Solution
Quality Center (QC) and ALM use DCOM, a Microsoft technology,
for remote execution between the QC client and the remote testing
machine.
Error: "Access is denied" - This
generally indicates a DCOM permission problem...
