Long time, no post. Sorry for that, but I was quite busy.
Today, I was invited to a nice pre-christmas dinner by the mother of my girlfriend. I really looked forward to the event and I deceided to just come to the office for some hours and then to go and take the train to Erlenbach where my girlfriend lives.
As soon as I was in the office, someone came to me and told me that a Win2k-Server just went down. I did what I always do in such cases: Go and reboot the thing.
But this time, it did not help.
So I went to get a TFT-Display and a keyboard to see what’s wrong. And I was not pleased: Bluescreen at startup.
None of the debugging-tools provided by Microsoft was of any help, so I took the server at my place and inserted the original installation disk.
As I suspected, the repairing-tool launched by pressing “R” in the Setup-Screen did not help. The real good system repair tool can be gotten when chosing to “I”nstall a new Installation and then chosing “R” when the old installation has been found.
I was pleased to see that the server booted again, when the installation was complete. All the settings and the whole configuration was still there yess!
But two things were wrong:
- The WINS-Service could not be started. The error in the error-log was “File not found”. An indication *what* file was missing was not given.
- The Exchange-Server used by our renter was down and could not be started. The error in the log is german and I will not even try to translate it for you as it is meaningless anyway.
In short: I could not fix the problem before I went to Erlenbach, so I had to return to the office instead of going back home after the (excellent) dinner because I am away around christmas.
My solutions for the problems:
- The WINS-Server could be reaniomated by un-installing and re-installing it.
- With the Exchange-Server I am still trying, but I think, Q257415 and Q296790 may be of help (Note: Google Groups is really great if you don’t know any solutions any more.
I’ll keep you updated on my progress here.
gnegg 