RPC Server Unavailable - Comments Page 2

On the media center install, yes, did reboot and the RPC shows up in the services list with the same files that came from the good machine.

EDITOR'S NOTE: There should be two RPC entries in the SERVICES.MSC list. They should be: RPC (Started, Automatic) and RPC Locator (Manual).

Thankx Bob.. You saved my JOB and my Tail. It really help. I took it a step further, and copies few other non working services's registry keys from one server to another. Rebooted the server and it started to work. Thank you.

This is as good a place as any.... I'm getting a couple of "RPC Server Is Unavailable" errors on multiple computers doing various things. Just for reference I am a tech at a fairly large corporation.

For example one computer got that error (RPC server is unavilable) in citrix when attempting to connect to an instance in DLx. Another computer gets it when in Application Enabler (Hyland Software) when attempting to pull up a report from Lawson. I personally have seen the error when attempting to run psloggedon (sysinternals tool to see who is logged in to a workstation).

On all of the workstations the RPC service (not locater) is started and apparently working properly. I know this error is known to happen during LDAP authentication and user authentication (and other various situations dealing with domain controllers and trusted domains). I ran a netdiag on my system and all tests passed but I did notice SPF *WARNINGS* (Not failures) on all of our domain controllers.

Just curious if you happen to know what might be causing these issues. I saw the first one of these errors about 2 weeks ago for the first time, and since have seen maybe 5 or 6 of them in various applications on different systems. Keep in mind we have roughly 1500 workstations here, so it is far from company-wide, but it is happening in multiple locations that should be communicating with different domain controllers. Thanks in advance.

I have the exact same problem. So how do I get the RpcSs registry key?

EDITOR'S NOTE: You have to search in REGEDIT, then Export it.

I had my laptop crash and took it to a computer center and got it back somewhat fine, spyware was removed and I think in the process my lexmark printer was disabled/removed (Long story short). Ive tried everything with downloading new drivers and re-installing (although my installation disk is back at home and not accessible til the weekend).

I attemped importing the key from another registry to mine, re-booted and still no luck. I have hassles with the RPC Server (which stops the installation of my printer after new hardware is detected, wont allow it to complete) and the print spooler server is not running which stops me from adding a printer, or viewing properties. any ideas? any would be greatly appreciated

EDITOR'S NOTE: Why do you think the RPC Server is the problem?

Thanks but it did not work for me. I made the registries the same on the working and non-working machines as described but the Rpc unavailable message is still there. By the way, the rpcss is set to start in permissions.

I got this ‘RPC Server Unavailable’ error when I try to start IIS at my local computer. I checked the Administrative Tools/Service and found ‘Remote Procedure Call’ service was started automatically. But All function button was graded so I can not stop or restart or do anything with it. I jsut restored the whole C drive from a backup file when this error happened. But so far, other software are working fine. I also found out RPCss in my registry and in Windows/system32 folder. Any suggestion to make IIS recognizing this RPC?

i get the same error message but mine is more narrowed down...If i try printing through ITSM which is basically a CRM application it throws the 'RPC server unavailable' yet if i try printing outside the app everything works fine...any ideas?

EDITOR'S NOTE: I would contact the tech support for ITSM... sounds like a bug in that software.

please help me i'm so stuck! recently my uncle went on my computer and did many scans on spyware software and anti virus software, ever since then my printer suddenly does not want to work and it says no printer is installed. now when i try to install the printer software it doesnt let me and says the RPC server is unavailable. i'm really stuck and dont know what to do please can you tell me how to fix this problem as i really need to use my printer! any solution would be much appreciated thank you.

EDITOR'S NOTE: Sounds like your uncle ripped out some good with the bad. I would recommend that you do a System Restore (see http://askbobrankin.com/system_restore.html) and then follow these instructions to clean up viruses and spyware: http://www.askbobrankin.com/should_i_buy_antispyware_or_antivirus_software.html

I'm getting this 'RPC Server is unavailable" when trying to join my XP PRo Wks to our domain. Please help!!