"RPC Server is unavailable" error

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I have a Win2k3 terminal server that periodically gives domain users
the message "RPC Server is unavailable" (local machine users can login
however). It's been doing this for a few years and we always just
rebooted it to fix the issue.

I don't know what the cause is, but I have an easier fix which I'd
like to put out here for any future victims of this issue:

Update the hosts file ("c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts") in
notepad.

You don't even need to change anything in it, just saving the file
causes windows to reset whatever it is that gets out of whack to cause
my RPC issue. I don't know why.
 
Re: "RPC Server is unavailable" error

Hi Matt,

You can sometimes get this error when an application is talking to MSWord,
etc via Automation and it has a bug (or perhaps something gets upset in
MSWord).

The fix would be to restart the 2 apps in question (i.e MSWord and the
custom application).

Regards,
Tom

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>I have a Win2k3 terminal server that periodically gives domain users
> the message "RPC Server is unavailable" (local machine users can login
> however). It's been doing this for a few years and we always just
> rebooted it to fix the issue.
>
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