Cannot start the www service on win2k professional box

Hi

My name is santosh and i am trying to start a service on one of the win2k
boxes here but it pops up an error message

Error 1717 the interface is unknown

i have checked the microsoft website and i could not get much help i have
tried uninstalling IIS and reinstalling it but it simply does not want to
start and also there are a couple of other services like the FTP service
even that pops up the same error message and on one particular site they had
mentioned that we need to make sure that Client for microsoft has to be
installed but that is there by default i dont know what the problem is can
someone please help me with this...

Thanks for all your help

Santosh.R

Check that the 'Event Log' service is started.

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Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
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Microsoft MVP [Windows]
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"Santosh" wrote:
| Hi
|
| My name is santosh and i am trying to start a service on one of the win2k
| boxes here but it pops up an error message
|
| Error 1717 the interface is unknown
|
| i have checked the microsoft website and i could not get much help i have
| tried uninstalling IIS and reinstalling it but it simply does not want to
| start and also there are a couple of other services like the FTP service
| even that pops up the same error message and on one particular site they
had
| mentioned that we need to make sure that Client for microsoft has to be
| installed but that is there by default i dont know what the problem is
can
| someone please help me with this...
|
| Thanks for all your help
|
| Santosh.R
|
|

Thanks a lot that did it but i still do not understand as to how are these
two services linked to each other..

Santosh.R


"Dave Patrick" <mail@Nospam.DSPatrick.com> wrote in message
news:#3RjC0j0EHA.2040@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> Check that the 'Event Log' service is started.
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
> Microsoft Certified Professional
> Microsoft MVP [Windows]
> http://www.microsoft.com/protect
>
> "Santosh" wrote:
> | Hi
> |
> | My name is santosh and i am trying to start a service on one of the
win2k
> | boxes here but it pops up an error message
> |
> | Error 1717 the interface is unknown
> |
> | i have checked the microsoft website and i could not get much help i
have
> | tried uninstalling IIS and reinstalling it but it simply does not want
to
> | start and also there are a couple of other services like the FTP service
> | even that pops up the same error message and on one particular site they
> had
> | mentioned that we need to make sure that Client for microsoft has to be
> | installed but that is there by default i dont know what the problem is
> can
> | someone please help me with this...
> |
> | Thanks for all your help
> |
> | Santosh.R
> |
> |
>
>

Starting those other services triggered a write to the event log which
couldn't happen since it wasn't running hence the error message. Make sure
the Event Log service is set to automatic start.

--
Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect

"Santosh" wrote:
| Thanks a lot that did it but i still do not understand as to how are these
| two services linked to each other..
|
| Santosh.R