SMTP Service Not Working

[Don]

Anyone seen this? THe SMTP service is not working on my
Win 2k server. It is set for automatic startup but it
doesn't start up. I try to start it from the Services
Applet and I get Error 3: The system cannot find the path
specified. The Eventlog registers this:
The Simple Mail Transport Protocol (SMTP) service
terminated with the following error:
The system cannot find the path specified.

And This:

The service metabase path '/LM/SMTPSVC/' could not be
opened. The data is the error code.


Any ideas? I searched the KB but couldn't find anything.

Thanks,
Don

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Anyone seen this? THe SMTP service is not working on my
Win 2k server. It is set for automatic startup but it
doesn't start up. I try to start it from the Services
Applet and I get Error 3: The system cannot find the path
specified. The Eventlog registers this:
The Simple Mail Transport Protocol (SMTP) service
terminated with the following error:
The system cannot find the path specified.

And This:

The service metabase path '/LM/SMTPSVC/' could not be
opened. The data is the error code.


Any ideas? I searched the KB but couldn't find anything.

Thanks,
Don

Strange. On my Win2000 server, the image path for the
SMTP service reads "C:\WINNT\System32\inetsrv\inetinfo.exe"
hence I would look for inetinfo.exe on the hard disk.

 

[Guest]

-----Original Message-----



Strange. On my Win2000 server, the image path for the
SMTP service reads "C:\WINNT\System32 \inetsrv\inetinfo.exe"
hence I would look for inetinfo.exe on the hard disk.

inetinfo.exe is there and when I checked the processes it
is running. Hence the reason I scratch my head at this
one. I am usually pretty good at figuring out these
problems but I am going to be this instance has to do with
the inetinfo.exe not being properly replaced on a hotfix
update?

Wouldn't be the first time.

Don