Re: Can't Ping to or from SBS2003

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From: John-Paul (JohnPaul_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 10/08/04 

Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2004 16:07:01 -0700

Hi Michelle, long time no hear!
I ended up re-installing SBS2003 and all is well except for minor probs.
SBS2003 wizards want to control the show, I must have strayed during the
initial install and something went awry that could not be fixed without a
re-install.
Nice hearing from you!
-JP

"Michelle Dixon [MSFT]" wrote:

> Hi John Paul,
>
> Try booting into Safe Mode with Networking. Try pinging again. If it works
> correctly now, something is starting in regular mode is causing the
> problem. Is there any third-party software installed on the server? We
> could also be looking at a policy issue.
>
> Any chance we have access to a Windows 2000 or XP machine for testing?
>
> To check the policy:
> Go to Start, Administrative Tools, Group Policy Manangement. Expand the
> forest, Domains, the expand the local domain, then Domain Controllers, then
> right-click on Default Domain Controllers Policy and select Edit. Then go
> to Computer Configuration, Window Settings, Security settings, Local
> policies, then to Security Options. Which items are set to enabled? There
> should only be 3 or 4 by default.
>
> Regards,
>
> Michelle Dixon, MSFT
> Microsoft Online Support Engineer
> Get Secure! - www.microsoft.com/security
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