Help, BIND9 initialization error on Windows 2000!

[Danny Mayer]

Shi Jingnian wrote:
> Stefan Puiu wrote:
> 
>>I think the srvinstw tool cleans out the registry entries 
>>the stuff under HKLM\CurrentControlSet\Services\named or 
>>how was it called.
>>you can download srvinstw from below, get the "instsrv" 
>>package. 
>>http://www.dynawell.com/support/Reskit/win2k.asp
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> i have to say it didn't work either. i downloaded it and
> removed the ISC BIND service with srvinstw, reinstalled 
> BIND 9, and it made no differences. in fact i had checked
> the registry file with that on the running machine, you 
> know searching for BIND or NAMED in the registry gives 
> lots of matches, it took me a long time to get them out 
> and compared, but no differences in the BIND-related 
> items had been found. i believe my service controller
> has smth wrong with BIND service or named.exe missed
> smth to do with the service controller, which led to
> the initialization error before named.exe got to run.
> 

Try grabbing the BIND 8 BINDInstall and run its Uninstall code.
If that doesn't fix it something else is wrong.

Did you set up the password on the named account correctly?
It could be having a password mismatch between the account and the entry 
in the Service. try changing both in both places and try to restart.

Danny
> Shi.
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