"Craig Kenisston" <craigkenisston@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>
> Here I go for last time, I promise.
>
> I uninstalled MS DTC (in an stupid attemp to avoid a distributed
transaction
> to start), by doing :
>
> net stop MSDTC
> MSDTC - uninstall
>
>
> After some charitative aim told me what I wanted to do is not possible, I
> decided to reinstall :
>
> MSDTC -install
> net start MSDTC
>
> I can see the "Distributed Transaction Coordinator" item, in the service
> manager, it is running for sure.
> Also, the Services console shows it as "started".
>
> But I still getting the message MSDTC on server 'myserver' is
unavailable'.
>
> I've repeated the operation a couple of times, to be sure (deinstall and
> reinstall) and still not working.
>
> Actually, I recall yesterday I was able to stop and restart MSDTC without
> problem, several times, but I was just doing that : stop & restart.
> Today it happens that I "uninstall" it and then it is not like before any
> more.
>
> I'm using an account with Administrator privilegies (Windows 2000 Advanced
> Server / SQL Server 2000 Enterprise)
>
> Is there something else I need to do to ? should I need to restart the SQL
> Server ? SQL Agent ?
> Any help is greatly appreciated.
>
>
> Regards,
>
>