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I have been having this error
The Simple Mail Transport Protocol (SMTP) service terminated with the following error: The system cannot find the specified path.

plzz help its bugging me

Dear Sidra,

I have found an article about this on the following URL, Please look into it.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.as ... e%3D327649

Regards,
Tamsila Siddique.
Adiscon

dear tamsila,

thankx for the link its quite helpful but i have'nt used regedit without guidance and as i am going to do this on a server machine so i'm a bit hesistant to use registry editor cause it can cause problems sooo i dunno wht to do should i go ahead with deleting the key or not???

regards
sidra.

Hello Sidra,

if you only do the Steps, explained in the Microsoft Knowledge Base Article, you can't make anything wrong and if you want to get rid off this problem I think you must do these Steps explained in the KB Article. So "gogogo" :]

Regards,
Timm Herget
Adiscon

But, of course, things can go wrong any time. So please take note that Timm doesn't mean there is no risk. Life is always risky. If you try it, do so at your sole risk. But if you don't try, the error won't go away. If you are hesitant, ask someone with more experience

Rainer

I know I'm late on this, but maybe someone else with the same problem discovers this thread and finds my suggestion useful...

I've searched the whole internet and came up with nothing but these none-conclusive threads... This is an uncommon condition dealing with IIS on windows 2000 and I think I've finally found a solution that at least worked for me anyway.

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Go to Control panel / Administrative tools and select Services, right click on "Automatic Updates" and choose properties.

Stop the service and select Disabled in "Startup type", press Ok and Restart the system. (put in the simplest form I ever know)

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If that doesn't work, check you don't have any queer Firewall software running on your machine (e.g. McAfee), uninstall them and you'd better uninstall IIS (if you messed up with metabase file and stuff, in desperation you know ), reboot and afterwards do the above procedure.

As you can see that wasn't actually the IIS fault, and the IIS service was down as a blatant consequence.

And I don't have a clue what is the actual cause of the problem which bings svchost.exe and services down at srartup and plagues all related components.

Well, I hope it helps.
Regards ~
(I may copy&paste this post to other similar threads, considering another chance of curing instead of reinstallation of the whole OS.)

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Above solution applies for this conditions (for your info and keywords for search engines):

IIS is gone!
When clicking on the Internet Services Manager, an error message says:
Error Connecting To //pc_name//
The system cannot find the path specified.
Do you wish to attempt to connect to it in future?

The IIS MetaEdit utility quits with this error: "fatal error occurred while
connecting to Localhost"

When starting the World Wide Web Publishing service on Local
Computer: Error 3: The system cannot find the path specified

WWW publishing, FTP and SMTP, all complain about "The system cannot find the specified path."

My email ID lobojason@yahoo.com

PLease reply URGENTLY

Armada wrote:Hi Liquid think did u get a solution to your problem

PLease let me know..it is urgent..

liquidthink wrote:I know I'm late on this, but maybe someone else with the same problem discovers this thread and finds my suggestion useful...

I've searched the whole internet and came up with nothing but these none-conclusive threads... This is an uncommon condition dealing with IIS on windows 2000 and I think I've finally found a solution that at least worked for me anyway.

**************

Go to Control panel / Administrative tools and select Services, right click on "Automatic Updates" and choose properties.

Stop the service and select Disabled in "Startup type", press Ok and Restart the system. (put in the simplest form I ever know)

**************

If that doesn't work, check you don't have any queer Firewall software running on your machine (e.g. McAfee), uninstall them and you'd better uninstall IIS (if you messed up with metabase file and stuff, in desperation you know ), reboot and afterwards do the above procedure.

As you can see that wasn't actually the IIS fault, and the IIS service was down as a blatant consequence.

And I don't have a clue what is the actual cause of the problem which bings svchost.exe and services down at srartup and plagues all related components.

Well, I hope it helps.
Regards ~
(I may copy&paste this post to other similar threads, considering another chance of curing instead of reinstallation of the whole OS.)

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Above solution applies for this conditions (for your info and keywords for search engines):

IIS is gone!
When clicking on the Internet Services Manager, an error message says:
Error Connecting To //pc_name//
The system cannot find the path specified.
Do you wish to attempt to connect to it in future?

The IIS MetaEdit utility quits with this error: "fatal error occurred while
connecting to Localhost"

When starting the World Wide Web Publishing service on Local
Computer: Error 3: The system cannot find the path specified

WWW publishing, FTP and SMTP, all complain about "The system cannot find the specified path."

I am receiving the message "Replay access denied" with a code of 554 for a few SMTP email clients. We are trying to send out email and the reply comes back. Anybody have any thoughts? Thanks