DCOM 10005 error

check this for all the references

http://www.eventid.net/display.asp?eventid=10005&eventno=612&source=DCOM&phase=1

I found this at microsoft.  

Event ID 10005 from DCOM After Installing IIS
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SYMPTOMS
After you install the Internet Information Server (IIS) service and perform a system restart, you receive the following error in the System Log of the Event Viewer:
   Event ID: 10005
   Source: DCOM
   DCOM got error. An instance of the service is already running.
                        
CAUSE
This is a nonfatal error warning that the IIS service is already started but has not registered a class factory that a Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM) client requires.
RESOLUTION
To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Windows NT 4.0 or Windows NT Server 4.0, Terminal Server Edition. For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
152734 How to Obtain the Latest Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack

DCOM errors will also have a long alpha-numeric string associated with them.  That string will reveal what application is having a DCOM problem.

I found several services disabled.  I reenabled and started.  This error has gone away.

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Steve

hi Steve ,
  Glad you could solve it . Could you tell us what service you started which helped you resolve this problem ? This will help others who have a similar problem to resolve it .

Regards

Anup

Noticed that 3 services were stopped on my DC at HQ.  WWW, SMTP and IIS.  Another engineer had stopped them since they didn't think we needed SMTP because we have an Exchange Server.  We are replicating to a DC across a WAN.  I read a TechNote from MS that seemed to say that AD uses SMTP for low-speed WAN link replication.  If that turns out not to be the case, I may go back and unintall the services completely.

Steve