Windows RPC service greyed out
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Friday, June 17, 2011 12:56 PM
Hey, Windows RPC service is greyed out and i need to re-start it, preferably without re-starting the server machine, so that it can accept the change made to the log on password...any help chrs
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Friday, June 17, 2011 4:33 PM âś…Answered
RPC service is one of the critical system services and is not readily modifiable by default to prevent users and admins from accidentally taking the server down or causing some other problems. A bunch of services depend on it to operate so if you manually bounce that service, you might end up with an unstable system and will have to bounce the whole machine anyway. Just check out the dependencies tab in RPC properties - the list of services/components that depend on it is usually very long.
Also, RPC service should be running under the NT Authority\Network Service account (you can't change password for that) which has very specific permissions (well documented in Windows Help). It is just enough to serve its purpose while still being a relatively low privileged account. Many services and components depend on RPC to have very specific abilities based on the published permissions. They also expect a certain level of security and not more so that in the event one of those services/components are attacked or compromised, the damage is limited. Changing the RPC service account can result in problems (if insufficient permissions are granted) or security risks (if more permissions are granted).
There are ways to enable admin control over the RPC service by changing some registry keys but I'd recommend not doing it. Perhaps you can share with us why you want to change the RPC service's logon account?
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Friday, June 17, 2011 11:52 PM
Please make sure your dcom service is running?
this thread might helps you http://forums.techguy.org/windows-xp/369617-rpc-server-unavailable.html
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Saturday, August 20, 2011 9:12 AM
Hi,
I am having the probelm of Windows Audio service not running ( since January 2011 ) and this is causing the audio to be not available . When I want to restart the service the error message received is Error 1079 : The account specified for this service is different from the account specified for other services running in the same process. When I checked the RPC and the DCOM , i found that the log on account and recovery are all greyed out for these services.
How can I resolve the above issue .
Many thanks for your replies
Sunday, April 16, 2017 5:16 PM
I corrected an issue by starting the Remote Procedure Call (RPC) Locator service which adds RPC compatibility for older applications.