Hello:
I am responsible for upkeep and maintenence of a NT4.0 (SP3) intel based server in a 24X7 environment. The network is small and consists of 15 workstations NT 4.0 SP3 in one building. Because of proprietary software being run, I cannot patch beyomd SP3 because the vendor will not support the product.
While being out of town for several weeks, upon return when I tried to log into the server, it appeared that someone else locked the workstation. I logged in as admin and when I started to check the event logger, I recieved a network dialog box requesting me to log into another workstation \\Workstation\admin$
I went to check the netork configuration and the following message occurs, “Cannot access Service Controller (1419). When I try to enter certain areas of control panel, I recieve a “invalid handle” error.
When going into the diagnostics, I recieve the following message, “Error 6 opening service Controller on \\SERVER NAME”
From the outside workstation all seems to be running well. My question is this, what is happening and how do I fix it with minimal or no downtime(preferrable without a reboot)???
Thanks for the help. please email me at boysun@midrivers.com if you have further questions. Thanks
