Dana D
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Terminal Server 2003 has NTVDM error at logon.
l have a win 2003 Terminal server and when you log on as any AD user it will display this error:
NTVDM.EXE - System Error
NTVDM encountered a hard error.
Options are close or ignore.
If you click ignore a dos box comes up and displays the commands for drive mappings from the AD logon script.
If you click close or ignore it simply progresses to the next drive mapping map request in the logon script....
It does this for every drive mapping request in the logon script once you click close or ignore and will finally go away once all the drives have been requested to map from the logon script.
The other odd thing is that if you simply use control alt delete and endtask the error at logon all the mapped drives are already mapped and operational. So im not sure why this is happening.
I tried installing this hotfix from microsoft but it did not resolve the error.
http://support.microsoft.c om/kb/9379 32/en-us
Anyone got any other ideas how to resolve?
Thanks in advance for your feedback/suggestions!
NTVDM.EXE - System Error
NTVDM encountered a hard error.
Options are close or ignore.
If you click ignore a dos box comes up and displays the commands for drive mappings from the AD logon script.
If you click close or ignore it simply progresses to the next drive mapping map request in the logon script....
It does this for every drive mapping request in the logon script once you click close or ignore and will finally go away once all the drives have been requested to map from the logon script.
The other odd thing is that if you simply use control alt delete and endtask the error at logon all the mapped drives are already mapped and operational. So im not sure why this is happening.
I tried installing this hotfix from microsoft but it did not resolve the error.
http://support.microsoft.c
Anyone got any other ideas how to resolve?
Thanks in advance for your feedback/suggestions!
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There are no rogue settings in the config.nt or the autoexec.nt.
Thanks!
Thanks!
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Anyone have any other suggestions to resolve this one?
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I beleive this related to something in active directory but im not sure where to look.
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I guess im keeping my own question alive here - I have been reviewing the errors that I am seeing in the logs and they are pointing me to check the group policy for the terminal server. However, the group policy on the terminal server says "not configured" for every single option.
So I have moved to looking at the group policy on the domain controller but there again it says "not configured" for all options!
So whats is controlling the group policy for my terminal server????????????? Any ideas?
So I have moved to looking at the group policy on the domain controller but there again it says "not configured" for all options!
So whats is controlling the group policy for my terminal server????????????? Any ideas?
I would run the command "set" from the server having the issue and then "set" from a working server and compare the two for differences. I suspect it's a bad variable in the environmental settings for your command/cmd environment. You would do this by running "cmd.exe" and then "set".
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Im checking this now. thanks you!
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All the environment variable pretty much match up and the only extra thing that is on the server in questions set results is this:
__COMPAT_LAYER=EnableNXSho wUI
Any ideas what this is and if its needed?
__COMPAT_LAYER=EnableNXSho
Any ideas what this is and if its needed?
Not sure what that is, if you go into
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWAR E\Microsof t\Windows NT\CurrentVersion
\AppCompatFlags\Layers
Is it listed there?
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWAR
\AppCompatFlags\Layers
Is it listed there?
It has something to do with application compatibility, but why would explorer.exe be listed there? I would be tempted to right-click on Layers, do an export to the C: drive and then remove the whole explorer.exe key and then see if you get different results with mapping drives.
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Adam,
I will try your suggestion when i could schedule some downtime to restart the server after making the suggested change and let you know how it goes....
Sudeep,
i was looking into your response and i noticed that some of the users that log onto this server have a local profile and others have a roaming profile:
I dont beleive we even use roaming profiles and wondered what would be the impact if i changed all users to local profile?
Will i need to reconfigure outlook and such (remap network drives) on each users profile on the server?
Will they lose dekstop icons if i do this? Will it recreate a new profile for them if i do this?
thanks!
I will try your suggestion when i could schedule some downtime to restart the server after making the suggested change and let you know how it goes....
Sudeep,
i was looking into your response and i noticed that some of the users that log onto this server have a local profile and others have a roaming profile:
I dont beleive we even use roaming profiles and wondered what would be the impact if i changed all users to local profile?
Will i need to reconfigure outlook and such (remap network drives) on each users profile on the server?
Will they lose dekstop icons if i do this? Will it recreate a new profile for them if i do this?
thanks!
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This is still open
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314106