"pr0f1t" <dewbin@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>I have server 2k3 web edition and the ftp service stopped working a
> week ago. The error I get is "the service did not respond to the start
> or control request in a timely fashion" I have tried everything I can
> think of including launching the service from the command prompt. I
> get
>
>
> The FTP Publishing Service service is starting.
> The FTP Publishing Service service could not be started.
>
> A system error has occurred.
>
> System error 1717 has occurred.
>
> The interface is unknown.
>
> I am at a loss here. I have been pulling my hair out for a week as no
> one else seems to have experienced this issue. Now to make matters
> worse I get an "interface is unknown" error when trying to open the
> Event Viewer so I cannot even see log entries to diagnose futher. Can
> anyone offer some constructive
> suggestions here?
>

"pr0f1t" <dewbin@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>I have tried connecting from another machine to view the even logs, to
> no avail. I have copied over the .evt files, and tried to open them on
> a working system and it gives an error that the file is unreadable. I
> have even exported registry entries as .reg and imported them onto the
> broken server and still the even viewer will not open. Always the same
> error messge that the interface is unknown. I tried to just re-install
> the msftp service and that not only failed to correct the issue, but
> broke the HTTP service as well, and I had to restore from an older xml
> config to get the http back up. The event log service is running, but
> gives an error when opening the service item that "plug and play
> service or another service is unavailable" despite the fact that the
> plug and play service is running as well. As a matter of fact I get
> the same error when opening the plug and play service properties as
> well.
>
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