Hi Dave, Thanks for your input, i have bit of a situation firstly i have added the user to the Built in Event Log Readers group From local machine on the event logs connecting to the server as the user in the Event Log Readers i get the error message event Viewer cannot connect to computer xxxxxxxx. the error reported is: The RPC server is unavailable. http://blog.mpecsinc.ca/2011/01/sbs-2011-event-viewer-error-rpc-server.html Checked the services and Remote Procedure Call (RPC)and Remote Procedure Call (RPC) Locator are started. Would you now the fix. please let me know. Thank you Cheers Reshmi

Might check this. Possible its the remote registry service needs started. http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/4494.troubleshooting-the-rpc-server-is-unavailable.aspx Regards, Dave Patrick .... Microsoft Certified Professional Microsoft MVP [Windows] Disclaimer: This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties or guarantees , and confers no rights.

Hi i would like to give access to some users to be able to view the event logs on the server. is there any possible ways i would do without granting so much of permissions but just to view the logs. If you have any idea please let me know. Much appreciate your thought :) cheers KB

This one may help. http://blogs.technet.com/b/janelewis/archive/2010/04/30/giving-non-administrators-permission-to-read-event-logs-windows-2003-and-windows-2008.aspx Regards, Dave Patrick .... Microsoft Certified Professional Microsoft MVP [Windows] Disclaimer: This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties or guarantees , and confers no rights.

Looks like i have a domain issue. Iam trying to connect from the production domain to the test doamin to view the event logs. With in the test domain i can connect to another test server to view the logs with out any problem. Now i just have to figure out how to get the two domain to talk to each other in this case. If you have ideas let me know. Thanks Cheers

Looks like i have a domain issue. Iam trying to connect from the production domain to the test doamin to view the event logs. With in the test domain i can connect to another test server to view the logs with out any problem. Now i just have to figure out how to get the two domain to talk to each other in this case. If you have ideas let me know. Thanks Cheers Surprisingly i just connected from the test server to my local machine in the production domain and it worked find. except when trying to connect from the production to test doesnt work :( My production local machine is running on win 7 x64 and the test server is running on Win Server R2 x64

This one may help but I'd probably start a new thread for this issue. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc778851(v=ws.10).aspx Regards, Dave Patrick .... Microsoft Certified Professional Microsoft MVP [Windows] Disclaimer: This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties or guarantees , and confers no rights.

Thanks Dave

You're quite welcome. Regards, Dave Patrick .... Microsoft Certified Professional Microsoft MVP [Windows] Disclaimer: This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties or guarantees , and confers no rights.