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Hey, For the third time in 3 Win2K Pro installs now, the Server (a.k.a. LanmanServer) service has mysteriously "disappeared". It won't load, and it's not in the list in the Service Management thingy either. Upon boot, I get the error message: Source: PerfNet Event ID: 2004 Unable to open the Server service. Server performance data will not be returned. Error code returned is in data DWORD 0. I have no idea when it happened. I've searched the MSKB and TechNet without success. It hasn't had any discernible impact at all until now when I want to run Terminal Services (installed it from the Win2K Server CD, \I386\adminpak.msi) as it doesn't work, and I think it's due to the missing Server service. Thankful for any help as to "re-registering" the service or somehow reinstalling it because I'm losing my hair over this. Oh, and I'm running SP2 now (but this happened under SP1 too).

That sounds absolutely fabulous! However, and please bear with me for a minute, I get a <windows 2000 root>\system32\ntoskrnl.exe is corrupt or missing; please install a new copy. [paraphrased] when I try booting with the Recovery Console. I've had it installed for ages, but never had any use for it until now. First time I noticed the boot.ini was wrong, \cmdcons pointed to the wrong partition, but I fixed that. Now, however, I get this error. I tried copying over the ntoskrnl.exe from \WINNT\system32 to \cmdcons\system32 to no avail. I guess it's not that easy eh?

Hello, Has anyone else experienced a 3ds max 4 installation failure running Win2K Server w/ SP1? It used to work great on Win2K Pro w/ and w/o SP1. The installation procedure (using Microsoft Installer) works great until it's about to "publish the application" (the last step) where it somehow determines something's wrong (no prompt) and rolls back the installation process, then returning a Fatal Error: Installation ended prematurely due to an error. message. The msi log doesn't say anything useful as to what might cause this. Any clues?

Abit BP6 2x Celeron 400@510MHz 256 MB PC100 SDRAM IBM Deskstar 75GXP 30 GB, 7200 rpm/2 MB IBM Deskstar 15something 15 GB, 5400 rpm/2 MB Diamond Monster Sound MX300 D-Link 8139 10/100 NIC 3dfx Voodoo3 2000@170MHz ASUS 40x CD-ROM Mitsumi 8402TE CD-RW Win2K Server + SP1 (no additional hotfixes) (Yeah yeah, I know, not much to boast about :\) Anyhow, I don't really think it's a hardware problem as I had no problems whatsoever with MAX whilst running Win2K Pro... Ah, the support forum...will ask around there as well...thanks.

Thanks for the tips, however, that didn't help a bit :\ I'm logged in as Administrator (I always am), and I tried the Add/Remove New Programs thing...to no avail. This sucks. Any other ideas anyone?