Re: Exchange 5.5 On W2K Services Won't Initialize

From: Jim Propert (jim_at_knet.com.au)
Date: 02/09/05 

Date: 9 Feb 2005 00:52:52 -0800

jim@knet.com.au (Jim Propert) wrote in message news:<47cf21ab.0502081419.41e8f619@posting.google.com>...
> "MikeH20" <mhuckabee@brazos.org> wrote in message news:<1107876304.788844.106230@l41g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>...
> > This may be a shot in the dark, but have you recently changed passwords
> > on your service account or the domain admin account? I haven't worked
> > with 5.5 for awhile, but I recall having a similar problem once after
> > changing passwords. I finally found a location buried deep in the 5.5
> > config where the password was hard coded. As soon as I set it to the
> > new password everything came up and started working correctly. Good
> > luck.
>
>
>
> I am pretty sure no one has changed the passwords. I have checked the
> account that is used to start the services which is what we use to
> login as administrator. So all that part is good.
> Because System attendant isn't going, we can't open System Manager.
> So I am having a hard time here trying to work out what is stopping
> these services from starting.

Okay, I have copied my priv.edb, pub.edb, and dir.edb. I have removed
exchange.
  Re-installed Exchange and same problem. So obvousily there is a
problem somewhere on this server that is stopping the exchange
services starting.
   I don't know really what could be doing this all of a sudden but I
will keep working on it and any suggestions would be much appreciated.

Cheers,
Jim Propert

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