Well the first thing I'd say is "restore" but if you could give some more detail there might be another way.
It sounds like this is the only DC/server in your environment? If not you should be able to connect to another DC to view ADUC. What functions does the server perform? Apparently VPN and DHCP, but does it do anything else like run a database or something? Perhaps it was taking so long to boot up because it was running some recovery procedures? What are the exact error messages you see? Have a look in the event log to try and determine when the problem started occurring and then you can start trying to figure out why. -----Original Message----- From: Richard Sumilang [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 28 November 2003 1:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ActiveDir] Windows 2000 Server Down Heres my story... One of my users gave me a call because they could not VPN to the server. My first assumption was that there account might have gotten locked out because maybe they tried to log in too many times with a wrong password so I took a look at my Active Directory Users and Computers snap in and there was nothing in there! I mean absolutely nothing! No tree on the left column and no data on the right column. I then took a look at the Remote routing management service and that service was shut down. I tried to start it back up but I got an error. Another thing I noticed was the DHCP service was down. I tried to start that up but also got an error that it will not start up. Lastly I didn't know what to do so I restarted the server but after I typed in the admin user name and password and it got to the point of applying personal settings and it will not go past that part. The blue scrolling thing was still scrolling but did not move past that after 20 minutes. I was able to restart the computer into safe mode but don't know how to resolve this issue. I would appreciate any help and suggestions. Thank You, - Richard S. List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ ********************************************************************** This message is intended for the addressee named and may contain privileged information or confidential information or both. If you are not the intended recipient please delete it and notify the sender. ********************************************************************** List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
