Crucial Domain Problem

Guys!
Everything was working fine when i came to office today and suddenly i came to know that the Group policy is not working properly and there was some other error messages in even log. So upon checking few settings and updating the DNS settings i made the worst mistake and restarted the server resulting now everything is messed up.

I can't see network conenction and upon click refresh in network connection window i get error message "the folder is unable to retrieve the list of network adapters on your machine, please make sure that the network connections service is enabled and running"

when i checked the services almost everything is in not running state and upon running the services like netlogon i get the error message "Error 1068 the dependency service or group failed to start"

I am not been able to see the properties of any service as well.

This machine is PDC, running DNS only.

I am in a mess and need help, if you require further information do let me know.

F A N A

Dead network card?

Nope both NIC working fine

booted in safe mode, tried to restore last good know configuration but nothing works same problem in every mode. Can;t open properties, DNS giving error, no AD :(

I made a changing in windows firewall: Allow remote administration exception option and enabled in using mmc, now i want to revert and just to see if that was the issue. But again i can't open the properties of this option.

Well I found this link that has a couple of steps that might help, not sure thoug has no one has posted a follow up as to weather it worked or not... its worth a shot though...

http://www.mcse.ms/message628311.html


I also found this on Microsofts website doesn't exaclty state what happened to you but some of the symptoms sound the same...

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/329441


hope that helps :)... Good Luck

Ping

Can you ping 127.0.0.1???

Can you ping any internal machines???

Can you ping the internet??


MLF

Well know i am able to see things but still one issue remaining, when i try to ping myserver from the same machine it resolve OLD IP address on the other hand when client ping myserver they get the orignal IP of the server. I run nslookup and its working fine, i think somehow the server IP got updated and still the record is not update in DNS.

I have manually update the records but no use.

Regarding not been able to access anything was the rpc logging error, this was resolved by changing the login account detail through registry: -

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Servic es\RpcSs\
Object name key is logon account for the service.
Changed it to original value "NT AUTHORITY\NetworkService

But still that IP resolution issue is not resolved and still server resolving to old IP.

ipconfig /flushdns

MLF

Your Time is off
set a reliable time sorce then

W32TM /resync /rediscover

all done