Zone collector, or master DB holder? If it's your master DB, your not licked yet . . . I been down that road before too . . . if you backup you IMA DB regularly, you can use DSmaint to restore your backup IMA DB to another server and essentially force the farm to work with a different master. You would need to make dsmaint changes to all servers in your farm pointing to the new master . . . J -----Original Message----- From: Robert Williams [mailto:RWilliams@xxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 6:49 AM To: 'thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx' Subject: [THIN] Re: IMA service wont start error 2147483649 ok, I tried all this and still no luck.....since this is my master server....I am F^&(*ed..... Thank You, Robert Williams Senior Network Administrator Raypak, Inc. rwilliams@xxxxxxxxxx Phone - 805-278-5363 -----Original Message----- From: Jim Hathaway [mailto:JimH@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 9:48 PM To: 'thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx' Subject: [THIN] Re: IMA service wont start error 2147483649 Robert, This is a combination of several posts I saw on this subject while attempting to resolve a situation where a client's IMA service on one of their XP servers never started on a reboot, and would fail constantly with error code # 2147483649 & 2147483647. The most commonly used resolution is to recreate the machine's local host cache, usually located at %systemdrive%\program files\Citrix\Independent Management Architecture\imalhc.mdb Rename the existing IMALHC.dsn to something like IMALHC.old, create a new DSN through ODBC. Go into the registry and go to, HKLM\Software\Citrix\IMA\Runtime\ and change the value of the entry 'PSrequired', to 1. . . .then attempt to restart your IMA service When and if this doesn't work try the following solutions: Check the path statements in the environment variables, make sure that the following entries are in the Path variable - %SystemRoot%\system32\Citrix\IMA %SystemRoot%\system32\Citrix\IMA\subsystems\ %SystemRoot%\system32\Citrix\IMA\lms Also check to make sure that your TEMP, TMP - variable is pointing to %systemdrive%\Winnt\Temp, %systemdrive%\Winnt\Tmp. Please note that if you're running FR2 for XP, the path for your citrix variables will be changed to %systemdrive%\Program Files\Citrix\. HTH J -----Original Message----- From: Robert Williams [mailto:RWilliams@xxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 8:02 PM To: 'THIN@xxxxxxxxxxxxx' Subject: [THIN] IMA service wont start error 2147483649 I was in the process of migrating from access to sql with dsmaint . After I ran dsmaint config, I stopped the ima service and restarted it but it won't start....rebooted. And still won't start. Help? Thank You, Robert Williams Senior Network Administrator Raypak, Inc. rwilliams@xxxxxxxxxx Phone - 805-278-5363