IIS Error

Trying to get NNTP service running

[richlowe]

Not sure if this is the right forum, but here goes.

Trying to get NNTP installed on my IIS 5.0 server. Already have SMTP and IIS web service. NNTP installed without error but now gets an error indicating it cannot find a file.

Looked through technet and only found one article indicating this happens if you've uninstalled the CLient for Microsoft Networks, which I did not.

I've checked everything that i know how to check, uninstalled, reinstalled and pulled out my hair. Nothing seems to make this error go away.

Any thoughts.
Richard Lowe

[Xoc]

We need a little more information: You didn't mention the file that's missing. This is, btw, the right forum.

[richlowe]

That's part of the problem - the message does not indicate which file is missing. Nothing in the event log, or any log file or anything. Just a file is missing. By the way, I tried turning on every single service, thinking it might be something i turned off - no effect.

Very frustrating. If the msg indicated which file was missing I could fix it. I even went so far as to compare everything on the build kit with what's in winnt and system32, and it's all there! I personally suspect registry corruption, but have not found anything on that yet.

Richard Lowe

[Xoc]

The only thing I can suggest, then besides reinstalling the operating system, is to get all the DLLs registered correctly. Go to each DLL, especially in the Windows\System32 directory and type:

regsvr32 filename.dll

Some will give errors, that's okay. This will fix any registry entries that are missing for the ones that don't. This may or may not fix the problem.

[Lisa]

If you don't want to type them all in. You can drag and drop them on regsvr32.exe. That works to and is much faster.