Re: Server Offline- need some advice

James Orr wrote:
On Feb 10, 12:03 pm, "Joseph Vito Bacino Jr." <no-em...@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
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.
--
Larry
"James Orr" <James...@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?
--
Claus
"James Orr" <James...@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 2003server, so I did a chkdsk at startup- pretty routine.
However, since that chkdsk, theserverhas been totallyoffline. The
clients can see/access/ping each other but can't get to theserverand
the
servercan'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)
Likehttp://www.ubcd4win.com/orhttp://www.knoppix.net/orhttps://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 theserver, what did they do while logged
in? If they mentioned they saw corruption, how did they come to that
conclusion?

--
______________________________
Joseph Vito Bacino Jr
DV Technical Solutions Inc.www.dvtechs.net

I am the original poster BTW; I just was having trouble getting in
through the web, so I am using my Google account instead.

Thanks for all of the help. I tried a new nic and sure enough, it
worked. It was certainly a duh moment for me, as I used to teach a
networking theory class where the first thing you always check is the
hardware.

Thanks to all for the help!

JRO
Glad you got it working!!
it's the only thing that counts!!
:)

--
______________________________
Joseph Vito Bacino Jr
DV Technical Solutions Inc.
www.dvtechs.net
.

Relevant Pages

  • Re: Server Offline- need some advice
    ... did you check the bindings on the NICs? ... "James Orr" wrote: ... However, since that chkdsk, the server has been totally offline. ... (make sure it is a "Run from CD" and not to install anything to the hard drive) ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs)
  • RE: NIC card not showing up during 5.1 install [asus p4p800 MB]
    ... my hardware should be supported according to the HAREWARE.txt in the CD image i have for 5.1. ... NIC card not showing up during 5.1 install ... The output looks something like (showing NICs only): ... I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. ...
    (freebsd-questions)
  • Re: NIC Replacement in Windows 2000?
    ... Don't uninstall any networking services and or protocols. ... hardware from Device Manager, shutdown, install new hardware, then at ...
    (microsoft.public.win2000.hardware)
  • Re: IIS install on XP in SBS2003 Domain
    ... Thanks for your help but I figured out that it is not IIS it is a windows ... the same thing happens everytime I install IIS. ... disable the old NICs. ... Disabling the on-board nics in BIOS is optional, ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs)
  • Re: SBS NIC Cards give Code 1
    ... But it appears something is wrong at a fairly low level - it's possible you'll get the same error regardless of what hardware you try and install - I doubt it's just networking. ... Do I perhaps have a corrupt drivers directory or more likely corruption in the registry linking network drivers? ... NIC settings to them, and then completely removing the physical nics from the box, including drivers and cleaning out devmgr. ... and my SBS server went down hard a number of time. ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs)