Re: Limited or no connectivity after SP1

Hello,

It is not a fresh W2K3 installation, it is an upgrade on top of W2K3
Standard.
Any way to solve this problem without loosing NAT and VPN, hence RRAS?

Thanks for your help
Perry



>I can confirm your latter message:
>
> ---------------------------
> Windows Firewall
> ---------------------------
> Windows Firewall cannot run because another program or service is
> running that might use the network address translation component
> (Ipnat.sys).
> ---------------------------
> OK
> ---------------------------
>
> That happens on a fresh installed version of W2K3 Standard with SP1
> applied.
>
>
> Perry Diels wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> After instelling W2K3Server SP1 the LAN connection has an error
> "Limited or
>> no connectivity". The server has 2 NIC's one that connect's to the
> Internet
>> and one that connects to the LAN. It is the only server in the
> network. When
>> clicking the "repair" button after a while there's a dialog saying
> that the
>> connection could not be repaired and that an IP could not be
> assigned,
>> however when looking in "details", the correct IP address is
> displayed.
>>
>> Fortunately all machines that connect to the server via LAN, get a
> correct
>> IP address and are able to access the server's shares and they can
> browse
>> the Internet through that server. It is weird that the "LED's" of the
> LAN
>> connection don't blink (in systray for example), opposed to before
> the SP1
>> installation.
>>
>> Maybe a useful detail; from Control Panel when clicking on "Firewall"
> an
>> error is displayed:
>> "Microsoft firewall cannot run because another program or service
> that is
>> running might use the network address translation component
> (Ipnat.sys)"
>> That must be the VPN service that is enabled on that server with NAT,
> could
>> that cause a problem?
>>
>> Prior to SP1 it was all running perfectly.
>>
>> Thanks for your help.
>> Perry
>


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