services failing on reboot

[John M]

I have some services that require a username and password to start. These
services run on a DC, there are multiple DC's in the site and org, all W2k
SP4 native. When we reboot the server the services fail to start
automatically. After the server is fully up they will start manually. It
seems that these services are starting before active directory or some other
key services starts. An example service is BackupExec. Any idea how to
resolve this?

thanks
John

 

[Simon Geary]

You need to determine the dependencies of each service and ensure that they
start in the correct order. This kb will tell you how to delay a service
from starting until its dependency services are started.
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=193888

 

[John M]

great,
now I need to reboot to test it.
I added the spooler to be the dependant list for some services

thanks
John

 

[John M]

I added spooler to the dependants for these services, but they are still
failing to auto start.. any more ideas?

thanks
John