9.8.0 in 2008 R2 x64 server

[Dan Mahoney]

On Tue, 5 Apr 2011, Jukka Pakkanen wrote:

> I'm moving one of our DNS servers (Win 2003 R2, v9.7.0) to a new 2008 R2 x64
> server.
> 
> After installing v9.8.0 I copied the /etc directory & subdirectories, the
> named user has full rights in relevant directories and "log on as a service"
> rights... still I get the following error in eventviewer when trying to start
> the service:
> 
> "none:0: open: C:\Windows\system32\dns\etc\named.conf: file not found"
> 
> Any ideas?  The named.conf file IS there, and the directories/datafiles are
> identical to our old, working server.  Tested with "administator" as the user
> as well, same problem.

Start a command shell as that user and try to more the file?

-Dan