Cant get any MMC snapins to open on server

[sidewinder]

This is quite an annoying problem.

On my backup server, no MMC windows will open.

I cant run anything, device manager, event viewer, nothing that uses MMC.

 

It was a problem a while back but I kind of forgot about it as everything was working ok. Now however there seems to be something up with the SCSI card, may well just be the driver but I cant check because no MMC windows will open!

 

Any ideas? It's really, really odd

 

Also is there any way to look at the event logs without event viewer? Because I cant even see if anything is being logged when I attempt to open anything

 

OS is Server 2003 Standard SP2

[sidewinder]

Right well card seems to be working now so not so urgent, but it is something Id still like to get sorted for obvious reasons!

[Michael]

What version of MMC are you running? You should be on version 3.0.

[mac_shinobi]

if you use a client or another server that does not have these issues and right click on my computer --> manage

 

right click on where it says my computer ( Local )

 

and click on connect to ....

 

and enter the netbios name or ip address of the server and check the event viewer of the backup server that way maybe

 

Just so that you can see what the issue is with it and go from there.

[sidewinder]

What version of MMC are you running? You should be on version 3.0.

 

I'll have to check, should be 3.0 as its SP2 but perhaps it didnt get upgraded or got corrupted somehow

 

mac_shinobi - cheers that works fine, should have thought of that. Nothing in event viewer really, expected it to be chock full of errors but no. At least I can do some administration this way anyway

[mac_shinobi]

you should be able to get to event viewer of the other machine that way as well.