Does anyone know about Task Scheduler? 1

[BigA1]

Please help! My boss can NOT use task scheduler due to error 2186. I need to solve this A.S.A.P. I can not find a thing about task scheduler on Win NT 4.0 sever. Can someone help?

 

[TheLad]

What Service Pack are you running? Have you reapplied it as a possible fix? -----------------------------------------------------
"It's true, its damn true!"
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[BigA1]

We are running Service Pack 6. We did try reapplying this Service pack. We are still getting Error 2186. What else would you suggest?

 

[LarryTheCucumber]

If the Task Scheduler is stopped, when you start it you receive:
The Service is not responding to the Control Function
More Help is Available by Typing NET HELPMSG 2186.

This will happen if the 'Read-only' attribute is set on the %SystemRoot%\Schedlgu.txt file.

To fix the problem, turn off the 'Read-only' attribute on the %SystemRoot%\Schedlgu.txt file, by either right-clicking in Windows Explorer and pressing Properties, or opening a CMD prompt and typing attrib -r %SystemRoot%\Schedlgu.txt.

 

[BigA1]

The Schedlgu.txt file was not on any of our NT 4.0 servers. However this file is on our Win 2000 servers. Do you have any other suggestions?

 

[ayjaycee]

BigAl, are you sure it's not there? It might be hidden - check that you can see hidden/system files. One by one, the penguins steal my sanity. X-)

http://www.tanda.f2s.com

 

[LarryTheCucumber]

Is there a Schedlog.txt file?

 

[Guest_imported]

I would go to microsoft web sight and see what the 2186 code is first

 

[BigA1]

OK - I thought I was crazy but the Show All File Types is selected. "schedlgu.txt" & "schedlog.txt" is not on this server. In addition, I went to microsoft website weeks ago and found nothing specifically for Win NT 4.0 Server -- I am at my wits end.

 

[LarryTheCucumber]

Do you know if you a using mstask or atsvc?
If you have upgraded IE and selected to install the
Task scheduler it will replace atsvc with mstask as the AT service. If the schedlog.txt is not there it will be created.

Check this page

http://www.jsiinc.com/subb/tip0800/rh0842.htm

 

[BigA1]

OK -- this is what we have IE 5.5 SP2 and both mstask.exe & atsvc.exe are in WINNT\System32. How do I know which one is getting executed?
Also, in the registry, there is NO Entry for task scheduler, So I went to Add/Remove programs to install the Task Scheduler component and it's not there. Am I in the Twilight Zone?