Re: Server Offline- need some advice

James Orr wrote:
I've got the nic for the upper disabled because they are not using it. However, when I added it back, it was set to receive an IP dynamically. It appears as if at some point, they were using this to get an IP from their ISP. But, this was before my time doing anything with them, so I don't really know exactly what the deal was.

Do you want me to still do an ipconfig on it?

"Larry Struckmeyer" wrote:

Hi James:

It might help to know the ip of the second adapter. Attach it to something and run the command again.

If you issue the command this way:

ipconfig /all > c:\iptest.txt

you can copy and paste the results into a post here.

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Larry


"James Orr" <JamesOrr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:959FFDCA-EBE9-4025-895E-AE5DF813A44B@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Bindings look OK. I did a print screen from ipconfig. Here it is:

http://www.jamesrorr.com/temp/ipconfig.bmp.

Thanks a lot for the help.

"Claus" wrote:

Can you please post an ipconfig/all from the box?

Also, did you check the bindings on the NICs?

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Claus
"James Orr" <JamesOrr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:03577121-D74F-4ED2-9082-37A63844E794@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
OK, here is an update on where things stand:

It seems as if the first errors are DNS 5782, 5775 & 5774. I have done
some
research and still no dice.

I also cannot repair the connection- getting an error on clearing arp
cache.
However, if I do an arp -a, the arp cache is totally empty. This looks
really suspect to me, as my understanding would say if that's empty, I've
got
no shot communicating with other nodes. Any idea why that would be?

"James Orr" wrote:

Yesterday, a client told me he thought there was some type of file
corruption
on his SBS 2003 server, so I did a chkdsk at startup- pretty routine.

However, since that chkdsk, the server has been totally offline. The
clients can see/access/ping each other but can't get to the server and
the
server can't ping any clients. There were absolutely no changes to the
network setup; the chkdsk was the only thing I did.

After that, I tried redoing the IP stack, then doing a repair install of
Windows. No luck there. I also tried switching the IP address, checking
different cables, ports, etc. No luck.

Any suggestions?

Thanks.




James,
We need to see why you can not communicate to other devices.
Things to do,
Try another nic,
or
If you have some type of Live CD ( that you can run that will load the Nic drivers. (make sure it is a "Run from CD" and not to install anything to the hard drive)
Like http://www.ubcd4win.com/ or http://www.knoppix.net/ or https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LiveCD

This way you can make 100% sure that the hardware is ok.
Try to ping around your network while in the LiveCD session
Run a constant ping for about 20min to other devices.
I have seen NIC's go bad. If you have 2 nics, test both.

At that point, you can rule out the hardware then look to more extreme trouble shooting on the windows install.

You said someone else was in the server, what did they do while logged in? If they mentioned they saw corruption, how did they come to that conclusion?



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