Re: SBS 2003 Stuck on Preparing network connections for over 24 ho

Check your networking 1st. Do the NICs apear as you expect them to?

Did the system report any 'new hardware found' after login? If so, restart
into DSRM again. If something has caused hardware (particularly network
hardware) to change it's config we need to let the system sort out the
changes, settle down, restart stably (at this point only to DSRM, I suggest)
and then check our networking. Ensure the IPAddress is as expected and that
the server is _only_ looking to itself for DNS. Check your bindings and the
order.

It's then time to restart normally, see if the problem still exists. You
might look at the event logs, see if there's anything in there explaining
why the system has errored.

"Jorn Christian" <JornChristian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi.
I have now booted the server up in Directory Services Restore Mode and
logged in with the administrator account.

What shoud i try to do now ?

"SuperGumby [SBS MVP]" wrote:

You should use Directory Services Restore Mode rather than safe mode.

Changing the NICs now is more likely to make the problem worse. You want
to
make as little change as possible and get the system to start in DSRM.
We're
not gonna be restoring anything, just using this mode so that the system
does not try to contact AD, the long startup times are _normally_ a sign
of
problems talking to AD, generally due to networking.

"Jorn Christian" <JornChristian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
message
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I have tried to boot into Safe Mode but there it hangs after i try to
logon
as
Administrator. I left it alone for about 30 minutes, but it still
hangs. I
can move the
mouse.

"Merv Porter [SBS-MVP]" wrote:

Can you boot into Safe Mode and and then post the results of an
ipconfig
/all for the SBS server?

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Merv Porter [SBS-MVP]
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"Jorn Christian" <JornChristian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
message
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I have tried to boot without the network cable pluged in but the
problem
remains the same.

I will nowl try to disable the onboard network adapter and install a
new
pci
network card to see if that might help.


Jason" wrote:

Have you tried booting it up with the network cable unplugged?
Might
not
help, but then again it might.

J

"Jorn Christian" wrote:

Hi.

A customers HP Proliant ML 330 SBS 2003 server starting having a
strange
problem yesterday. It have on boot been stuck on the preparing
network
connections for over 24 ours now. Tried to reboot today, but
still
stuck on
preparing network connections.

Any suggestions ?








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