Problems Starting RAS

[DM]

i am having trouble starting RAS for a dial-up connection. The error i am
getting in event log in this:

The Routing and Remote Access service terminated with service-specific error
16389.

So i did my research and came across the following:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;840686
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q299013

i tried them both (with the expection of reinstalling TCP/IP since i cant do
that right now) and the service still fails to start.

so i enabled tracing on ras and found this:
1720] 16:40:01:713: Service SDO is starting service: 1...
[1720] 16:40:01:713: IAS Core Manager is initializing the IAS components...
[1720] 16:40:01:713: IAS Core Manager is attaching to the local machine...
[1720] 16:40:01:713: Machine SDO is attempting to attach to the local
computer...
[1720] 16:40:01:713: Machine SDO is initializing the IAS support services...
[1720] 16:40:01:713: Machine SDO is creating the SDO schema...
[1720] 16:40:01:713: Machine SDO has successfully attached to computer:
'MACHINENAME'...
[1720] 16:40:01:713: Machine SDO is attempting to retrieve the Service SDO
for service: IAS...
[1720] 16:40:01:713: Error in Machine SDO - InitializeSDOSchema() - Could
not initialize the IAS data store...
[1720] 16:40:01:713: Error in Machine SDO - GetServiceSDO() - Could not
initialize the SDO schema...

now i did copy the new MDBs over, as article 840686 instructed me to, yet
this is still occuring.

if anyone have any ideas i would be greatly appreciative!

 

[Sharoon Shetty K [MSFT]]

The error codes and the logs clearly show that the problem is that the IAS
database is damaged. This should go once with the resolution mentioned in
the KB article
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;840686

Can you cross check the timestamps of the mdb files to be sure that the
files are updated.