[TaediumVitae]

Hey,

For the third time in 3 Win2K Pro installs now, the Server (a.k.a. LanmanServer) service has mysteriously "disappeared". It won't load, and it's not in the list in the Service Management thingy either. Upon boot, I get the error message:

Source: PerfNet
Event ID: 2004

Unable to open the Server service. Server performance data will not be returned. Error code returned is in data DWORD 0.

I have no idea when it happened. I've searched the MSKB and TechNet without success.

It hasn't had any discernible impact at all until now when I want to run Terminal Services (installed it from the Win2K Server CD, \I386\adminpak.msi) as it doesn't work, and I think it's due to the missing Server service.

Thankful for any help as to "re-registering" the service or somehow reinstalling it because I'm losing my hair over this. Oh, and I'm running SP2 now (but this happened under SP1 too).

[TaediumVitae]

That sounds absolutely fabulous! However, and please bear with me for a minute, I get a

<windows 2000 root>\system32\ntoskrnl.exe is corrupt or missing; please install a new copy.

[paraphrased]

when I try booting with the Recovery Console. I've had it installed for ages, but never had any use for it until now. First time I noticed the boot.ini was wrong, \cmdcons pointed to the wrong partition, but I fixed that. Now, however, I get this error.

I tried copying over the ntoskrnl.exe from \WINNT\system32 to \cmdcons\system32 to no avail. I guess it's not that easy eh?