Re: "Preparing Nework Connections" on boot

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From: Cris Hanna \(SBS-MVP\) (crisnospamhanna_at_mindspring.com)
Date: 03/23/04 

Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 15:49:12 -0600

Regardless of how you are connected to the internet...the ideal and recommended setup is two nics.

The first nic should be on a private subnet and used for communication around the lan

the second nic should be the one connected to your DLink router. Personal opinion here is that you turn off DHCP on your router and assign a static ip to match the router scheme.

SBS handles DHCP/WINS/DNS for everything inside the lan.

So to briefly answer your question, yes the problem is your config because the router can't do anything on the network except hand out an address. 

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Cris Hanna, SBS-MVP
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Please DO NOT respond to me directly but post all responses here in the newsgroup so that all can share the information
  "Marcus O" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:122a501c4111e$1eae0a70$a401280a@phx.gbl...
  Hi!
  I installed Win 2003 SBS. When it wanted to Continue 
  installation of SBS it complained that there was no 
  network. I installed drivers and gave it a static IP 
  outside the DHCP range an rebooted. Then I continued 
  installation but, everytime I reboot it hangs longer than 
  I'm used with in XP/2000 at "Preparing Nework 
  Connections ...". Is it aleays like that with SBS 2003?
  The only thing I've done more is to not use the SBS DHCP, 
  I use the D-Links DHCP instead. Can that affect, 
  shouldn't do.
  When OS is started everything works ok.
  Regards
  /Marcus

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