An attempt was made to logon, but the network logon service was not started Server 2008 R2

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On my main 2008 R2 domain controller:

When I boot, the screen goes black (monitor light goes amber)

RDP logon to the server says "An attempt was made to logon, but the network logon service was not started"

Trying to logon to the local admin account on the domain controller via RDP gives the same problem.

It's a really big mess..

EDIT: After playing around with some remote management tools, it seems neither netlogon nor RPC server are running.. tried starting them but they won't start..

Best Answer

On my main 2008 R2 domain controller:

Luckily for you, there's no such thing as a main domain controller. They're all peers, and some just hold more roles than others.

It sounds like your server has some serious issues and you haven't provided any meaningful details for us to help resolve them, so I'll recommend this: Remove all FSMO roles from this DC. Demote it (or do a metadata cleanup if you can't demote it) so that it's no longer a Domain Controller. Reinstall it and dcpromo it again.

It's better to just rebuild a wonky DC than to mess with it, considering how modular they are.

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