I get an RPC error trying to install Service Pack 1 for Windows 2000, what can I do?

A. A number of built-in shares exist on each NT/2000 installation,such as C$ which is the root of your C drive, ADMIN$ which is your NT root, e.g.C:winnt.

Its possible to stop these shares being created as seen in 'Q. How do I stop the default admin shares from being created?'.

If you receive the error "The RPC Service is not available." thisis normally be caused by the ADMIN$ share being missing so ensure it exists,this can be checked with the NET SHARE command.

C:>net share

Share name   Resource                        Remark

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
D$           D:                             Default share
G$           G:
ADMIN$       C:WINNT                        Remote Admin
C$           C:                             Default share
IPC$                                         Remote IPC
The command completed successfully.

If it does not exist then remove the registry key as outlined in thementioned FAQ or manually recreate

C:> net share admin$=c:winnt