Sorry for reposting the message but you may got some nasty "=3D" and = "=3D20" caracters as a result of my bad Encoding Format i have set-up on = Outlook 2000. Therefore I am sending again with Plain Text US-ASCII = format that should be OK! Sorry again for this inconvenience I may have = caused! -------------------------------------------------------------------------= ------- Hello everybody. I immediately need some help (I search all the available resources but = couldn't find any solution for my problem). I am logged in as Administrator on Windows 2000 Professional and when I = go to Administrative Tools and then select the component Disk Management = (under Storage) it just shows me the message (in the status line) = "Connecting to Logical Disc Manager Service...". After waiting for about = one minute and nothing happens I get the message (in a separate window = with title Logical Disk Manager) and an red X saying "Server execution = failed". Furthermore on the status line of the Disk Management Snap-In = it shows "FAILED connection to Logical Disk Manager Service." As a good Administrator I also checked for more messages on the Event = Viewer, where it give me the following ERROR under the System log: ------- Date: 23/04/2001, Time: 5:46 (the date and time the error occured = matched perfectly this info) Source: DCOM Category: None Type: Error Event ID: 10010 User: PHOENIX\Administrator (the administrator, that's me!) Computer: PHOENIX (this is my computer's name) Description: The server {4FB6BB00-3347-11D0-B40A-00AA005FF586} did not register with = DCOM within the required timeout.=20 ------- I know that this is a DCOM specific error. I have searched the registry = and found that the CLSID {4FB6BB00-3347-11D0-B40A-00AA005FF586} is related to dmadmin, the = Logical Disk Manager Administrative Service. Since this is a DCOM error I also double checked about this CLSID in = dcomcnfg in the applications listing the Logical Disk Manager = Administrative Service which is executed using the command dmadmin.exe = /com (the same value was found in the registry search when I searched = for the CLSID), and this ensures that the problem occures from the = Logical Disk Manager Administrative Service. While I have noticed the following: When I start Disk Manager, the = LocalSystem should run the Logical Disk Manager Administrative Service, = which does not automatically start, even if the service properties are = the following: Startup type: Manual (which means start service on demand) Logon: Local System account The other values are the default ones. Furthermore, in the DCOM Configuration dcomcnfg the Logical Disk Manager = Administrative Service has the following properties: Authentication Level: Default (in the default properties the auth level = is {None} Location: Checked only Run application on this computer Security:=20 - Selected Default Access Permissions (which this is only an empty list = with Registry Value "DefaultAccessPermission" and owner the = Administrator) - Selected use default lauch permisions (on the default security this = has Registry Value "DefaultLaunchPermission", owner "Unknown Account" = and Names the following: Administrators, INTERACTIVE, SYSTEM with Allow = Launch permissions) - Selected use custom configuration permissions, that are the following: Full Control granted to: Administrators, CREATOR OWNER, SYSTEM Read: Everyone, Users Special Acces: Power Users Identity: The launching user is selected Endpoints: default system protocols (which btw are: Connection-oriented = TCP/IP, SPX, NetBEUI, Netbios over IPX) Please note that when I start the Disk Management snap-in in MMC (i.e. = under Computer Components) and while waiting for the Logical Disk = Manager Administrative Service to start (which does not start and the = Disk Management fails to connect) if I start it manually, then it will = connect normally to the Logical Disk management service. Please help me by explaining possible suggestions to fix this problem = (if you known of course), any kind of ideas or just your opinion why the = service "Logical Disk Manager Administrative Service" does not start = when it should have started, and the most important why it doesn't = register with DCOM within the specified timeout. How can it be fixed! Please help me, I am desperate! George ----- To unsubscribe, send a message to win2kforum-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and put "unsubscribe" in the subject of the message. To reach the administrator(s), send a message to win2kforum-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx