Help turned service: "DNS Server to Start "Manual" and now cannot log in

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Sekhar

Think I messed up. Made the following changes:
- A: On our PDC (and we have no BDC) I turned
service: "DNS Server to Start "Manual" and now cannot log
in.
- B: Added another NIC to our machine.
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I think the culprit is 'A' though I am about to remove
the extra NIC to make sure B is not in the picture anymore
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Keep getting the following error:
ISASS.exe - System Error: Security Accounts manager
initialization failed because of the following error:
Directory Service cannot start. Error Status
0xc0002e1. Please click OK to shut down the system and
reboot into Directory Services Restore Mode. Check the
event log for more Detailed Information
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Have tried rebooting with option F8 and all of them
result in ether the above error except the mode:
Directory Services Restore Mode" which has just the
inability to log in (no error message just invalid
user/pass).
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Tried to reboot from the original CDs and do a repair,
but the server could not log in when prompted to provide
the Administrator password.
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Please help !!!
 
Thanks ACE. Your reply makes sense. The server is a W2K
server.
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I think we forgot the original local Administrator
password (keep getting rejected) so we are looking into
the ERD.
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Is the URL for Sysinternal's ERD disk on
www.sysinternals.com? Unfortunately we cannot find the
ERD. Do you have the URL?
 
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Sekhar said:
Thanks ACE. Your reply makes sense. The server is a W2K
server.
===
I think we forgot the original local Administrator
password (keep getting rejected) so we are looking into
the ERD.
===
Is the URL for Sysinternal's ERD disk on
www.sysinternals.com? Unfortunately we cannot find the
ERD. Do you have the URL?
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Sorry, it's from Winternals:
http://www.winternals.com/products/repairandrecovery/


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Regards,
Ace

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Ace Fekay, MCSE 2000, MCSE+I, MCSA, MCT, MVP
Microsoft Windows MVP - Active Directory
 
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