Re: LAN NIC replacement procedure - Take 2!

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I never had to go that far as to run CEICW in the process. I am not
convinced it would be necessary but you can do it.
SBS CEICW wizard doesn't support more then 2 NICs. Make sure only two NICs
are showing in Device Manager when you run CEICW.

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Jan Wakulicz
www.micropol.com.au


<Muffy> wrote in message news:rjovr19m2ti4j4fqsba5nqd1k11q30c5p5@xxxxxxxxxx
> Jan, thanks so much for taking the time to help.
>
> I am still a bit confused though. It must be MY week to be dense.
>
> Before I shutdown, do I run CEICW, changing the LAN NIC to the
> Loopback NIC and then shutdown and remove old NIC and insert NEW NIC
> - then restart and rerun CEICW and reassociate to the NEW NIC ?
> and then do a final reboot just to make sure ?
>
>
> On Sat, 7 Jan 2006 15:39:29 +1100, "Jan" <jan@.n.o.com> wrote:
>
>>At this point you need to uninstall old NIC and configure MS Loopback as
>>it
>>was your LAN NIC.
>>Shutdown server replace old NIC with new one.
>>Start up server and make sure new NIC drivers are in place.
>>Uninstall MS Loopback, configure new NIC with your LAN IP parameters and
>>you
>>are done.
>>You might want to restart server to see there are no errors.
>


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