Error 2184: The Service has not been Started
Article ID: 171882
Article Last Modified on 10/31/2006
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 Standard Edition
This article was previously published under Q171882
SYMPTOMS
When you attempt to stop the Remote Access Connection Manager, you may
receive one of the following error messages, depending on the manner in
which you attempted to stop it.
From Services in Control Panel, you may receive the following error
message:
Services
Could not stop the Remote Access Connection Manager service on
\\<SERVERNAME>.
Error 2184: The service has not been started.
From a command prompt running
net stop rasman, you may receive the
following error message:
The service has not been started.
More help is available by typing NET HELPMSG 2184.
RESOLUTION
Neither of the above error messages actually indicates a problem; the
service has stopped correctly.
STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Windows NT version 4.0. We
are researching this problem and will post new information here in the
Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.
Additional query words: steelhead ras
Keywords: kbbug kberrmsg kbnetwork KB171882