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I have a pretty crucial Windows 2000 machine that I disabled File and
Printer Sharing while logged in as the Administrator. I also disabled
3 RPC services, (Rempote Procedure Call, Remote Procedure Call
Locator, and Remote Registry Service). After doing this some really
adverse behavior started occuring on the machine.
For starters, the machine got a long boot time. (Before and after the
sign-in screen). Anti-Virus is unable to load, (as well as some other
start up applications). Immediately I noticed a lot of basic Internet
Explorer functionality wasn't working right: Unable to open links in
new windows, Cut and Paste not working.
When I go into Network and Dial-Up connections (so I can re-install
the File and Printer Sharing), none of my connections show up.
There's nothing to click on so I can re-install the File and Printer
sharing. It lets me add a new one, through the Wizard, but after it's
added, I can't even see it.
When I go into Services and right click on the RPC services so I can
re-enable them, the properties window doesn't even pop up. However,
when I go to close Services, Microsoft Management Console prompts me
to 'Close all property pages before closing Services'.
Some other problems the changes created... 'Computer Management',
Shared Folders are unbrowsable. It gets a Error 2114: The Server
service is not started. The Server service is not in Services due to
File and Print Sharing being uninstalled. Other MMC functions are
messed up as well, due to RPC being disabled. MMC error tells me that
I can't connect to the machine for a couple items. Add/Remove
Programs is blank. Nothing shows up.
I'm not sure I've ever messed up a machine this badly. Does anyone
know what my best bets are for getting the machine working properly
again? I would like to get File and Print Sharing reinstalled as well
as re-enabling RPC to see if that fixes a lot of the problems.
Thanks in advance,
Printer Sharing while logged in as the Administrator. I also disabled
3 RPC services, (Rempote Procedure Call, Remote Procedure Call
Locator, and Remote Registry Service). After doing this some really
adverse behavior started occuring on the machine.
For starters, the machine got a long boot time. (Before and after the
sign-in screen). Anti-Virus is unable to load, (as well as some other
start up applications). Immediately I noticed a lot of basic Internet
Explorer functionality wasn't working right: Unable to open links in
new windows, Cut and Paste not working.
When I go into Network and Dial-Up connections (so I can re-install
the File and Printer Sharing), none of my connections show up.
There's nothing to click on so I can re-install the File and Printer
sharing. It lets me add a new one, through the Wizard, but after it's
added, I can't even see it.
When I go into Services and right click on the RPC services so I can
re-enable them, the properties window doesn't even pop up. However,
when I go to close Services, Microsoft Management Console prompts me
to 'Close all property pages before closing Services'.
Some other problems the changes created... 'Computer Management',
Shared Folders are unbrowsable. It gets a Error 2114: The Server
service is not started. The Server service is not in Services due to
File and Print Sharing being uninstalled. Other MMC functions are
messed up as well, due to RPC being disabled. MMC error tells me that
I can't connect to the machine for a couple items. Add/Remove
Programs is blank. Nothing shows up.
I'm not sure I've ever messed up a machine this badly. Does anyone
know what my best bets are for getting the machine working properly
again? I would like to get File and Print Sharing reinstalled as well
as re-enabling RPC to see if that fixes a lot of the problems.
Thanks in advance,