Re: unable to open local users and groups

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?

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/kj

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....@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...

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/kj

Jeff Brusoe wrote:
> I also forgot to mention that the server name appears as it should in
> the error message.
>

Sorry, don't know the registry keys, but one of the regristy access
monitoring tools would probably give you what you need.

Tried using a different user name, local vs domain.?? Results from a
'connect to this computer' ?




> On May 17, 2:03 pm, "kj [SBS MVP]" <KevinJ....@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....@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

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/kj

Happy it worked for you !

Jeff Brusoe wrote:
> Thanks again for your help. We were actually able to go back to a
> system state backup and restore what we needed to from the registry.
> Everything works now.
>
> On May 17, 2:39 pm, "kj [SBS MVP]" <KevinJ....@SPAMFREE.gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> Jeff Brusoe wrote:
>>> I also forgot to mention that the server name appears as it should
>>> in the error message.
>>
>> Sorry, don't know the registry keys, but one of the regristy access
>> monitoring tools would probably give you what you need.
>>
>> Tried using a different user name, local vs domain.?? Results from a
>> 'connect to this computer' ?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> On May 17, 2:03 pm, "kj [SBS MVP]" <KevinJ....@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....@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
>>
>> --
>> /kj

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/kj