unable to open local users and groups
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From: Jeff Brusoe on 17 May 2010 13:39 This is about a problem I'm having on 2003 Server R2. When I try to go into local users and groups, it has a red x over it and the display pane says "Unable to access the computer <ServerName>. The error was: Invalid Syntax." I've tried several things, but still have this problem. Some of the suggestions I've tried including copying over activeds.dll and activeds.tlb from a server that works and re-registering those, (obviously) rebooting the server, and running system file checker. None of these have solved the problem. Does anybody here have any other suggestions of things to try? Thanks.
From: kj [SBS MVP] on 17 May 2010 13:43 Jeff Brusoe wrote: > This is about a problem I'm having on 2003 Server R2. > > When I try to go into local users and groups, it has a red x over it > and the display pane says "Unable to access the computer > <ServerName>. The error was: Invalid Syntax." > > I've tried several things, but still have this problem. Some of the > suggestions I've tried including copying over activeds.dll and > activeds.tlb from a server that works and re-registering those, > (obviously) rebooting the server, and running system file checker. > None of these have solved the problem. > > Does anybody here have any other suggestions of things to try? > Thanks. So, you're trying to open this from what MMC, and locally or remotely? -- /kj
From: Jeff Brusoe on 17 May 2010 13:53 Thanks for the reply. I have tried to open it 3 different ways - through going to My Computer/right click/Manage, typing lusrmgr.msc in start/run, and opening up a blank MMC window and trying to add the "Local Users and Groups" snap-in. This was all done from the server console and the same error message was displayed every time. The interesting thing is that I can open this up if I run the MMC on my local workstation and connect to the server. On May 17, 1:43 pm, "kj [SBS MVP]" <KevinJ....(a)SPAMFREE.gmail.com> wrote: > > So, you're trying to open this from what MMC, and locally or remotely?
From: kj [SBS MVP] on 17 May 2010 14:03 Jeff Brusoe wrote: > Thanks for the reply. > > I have tried to open it 3 different ways - through going to My > Computer/right click/Manage, typing lusrmgr.msc in start/run, and > opening up a blank MMC window and trying to add the "Local Users and > Groups" snap-in. This was all done from the server console and the > same error message was displayed every time. > > The interesting thing is that I can open this up if I run the MMC on > my local workstation and connect to the server. > > On May 17, 1:43 pm, "kj [SBS MVP]" <KevinJ....(a)SPAMFREE.gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> So, you're trying to open this from what MMC, and locally or >> remotely? Hmm. Guessing something bad in the registery. When did it start? Tried opening and then connect to computer, this computer.... Is the <Servername> correctly displayed and apearing normal... -- /kj
From: Jeff Brusoe on 17 May 2010 14:23
Thanks again for the reply. We're not too sure when exactly it started, but it was noticed this morning. Do you happen to know where in the registry the activeds.dll and activeds.tlb file information is stored? I re-registered those two files, but didn't clear out any registry entries. I was thinking about deleting that part of the registry and then trying to register them again. On May 17, 2:03 pm, "kj [SBS MVP]" <KevinJ....(a)SPAMFREE.gmail.com> wrote: > Jeff Brusoe wrote: > > Thanks for the reply. > > > I have tried to open it 3 different ways - through going to My > > Computer/right click/Manage, typing lusrmgr.msc in start/run, and > > opening up a blank MMC window and trying to add the "Local Users and > > Groups" snap-in. This was all done from the server console and the > > same error message was displayed every time. > > > The interesting thing is that I can open this up if I run the MMC on > > my local workstation and connect to the server. > > > On May 17, 1:43 pm, "kj [SBS MVP]" <KevinJ....(a)SPAMFREE.gmail.com> > > wrote: > > >> So, you're trying to open this from what MMC, and locally or > >> remotely? > > Hmm. Guessing something bad in the registery. When did it start? Tried > opening and then connect to computer, this computer.... > > Is the <Servername> correctly displayed and apearing normal... > > -- > /kj |