Re: Help, MS tech support is useless

almost certainly going to be your dns settings, maybe they are pointing to a
non existent IP, or maybe a public DNS ?

"Nathan Weldon" <nweldon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:Oke7dCjtFHA.996@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>I just installed sp1 for server 2k3 on a DC, the only DC at a satelite
>office. I installed AD before sp1 so maybe that is my downfall but too late
>to do anything about it now. AFter rebooting the server takes forever and a
>day to start up, displays "Setting up your network connections" for a good
>20 minutes. After I'm finally able to log in, none of my network
>connections function. My initial thought was windows firewall, but I have a
>policy in effect that disables it becuase it caused nothing but trouble and
>I use a 3rd party one anyway. I think it has something to do with the
>security configuration wizard which is supposed to run after rebooting, but
>it doesn't, and I can't even find it in the control panel. This happened my
>other location on my DC/Exchange Server, after 6 hours on the phone with MS
>I gave up and uninstalled the service pack.
>


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