On my main 2008 R2 domain controller:
When I boot, the screen goes black (monitor light goes amber)
RDP logon to the server says "An attempt was made to logon, but the network logon service was not started"
Trying to logon to the local admin account on the domain controller via RDP gives the same problem.
It's a really big mess..
EDIT: After playing around with some remote management tools, it seems neither netlogon nor RPC server are running.. tried starting them but they won't start..
Okay this is bizarre. I just DCPROMO'd this server at home to set it up with AD. Upon reboot, I tried to get into the DNS server and it says "Access Denied". Okay so let's try that again.
I remove the role, reboot, and go to install the role again. Now, when I check the box to install the DNS server, the MMC thing crashes immediately! Here's the error I'm getting..
Description: Stopped working
Problem signature: Problem Event Name: CLR20r3 Problem Signature 01: mmc.exe Problem Signature 02: 6.1.7600.16385 Problem Signature 03: 4a5bc808 Problem Signature 04: mscorlib Problem Signature 05: 2.0.0.0 Problem Signature 06: 4d4cbca7 Problem Signature 07: 4212 Problem Signature 08: a9 Problem Signature 09: System.NullReferenceException OS Version: 6.1.7600.2.0.0.272.7 Locale ID: 1033
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I am looking for something that will allow me to take a computer with 2 NICs, and drop it in between a link of 2 things (router, server, computer, etc) and monitor all the network traffic, bandwidth, etc.
So for example: Internet -> L3 switch -> L1 switch -> monitor -> L1 switch -> Server
I ask because I am trying to diagnose certain problems on our network here at work.