wds probleme yellow excamation mark on the network card

[gigi74]

hi i am sorry to disturb you guys with my probleme.i use to use ris and i have no problem to configure this from command line also from wizard.

i have purchased windws server 2008 standard and i read the how to file then i find the graphic explanation here in windows noob.

i have folow the settings like was on the website but after restart i realize nothng works.i have tried few times but stil the same.

my quiestion is i would like to run wds on my server and also on that server gonna be the DNS and DHCP installed.loks like tere is some problem with dhcp and dns

 

could you please provide som right direction. i hve 2 network card one gigabyte and one 10/100 3 com in the server.i have tried manually installing and configuing the dns dhcp and wds with the activ dirctory.

 

thank you again for your time

[gigi74]

if you click on the network card icon what error does it say ?

 

 

hello

 

we find another probleme with this peace of ... from microsoft server 2008 standard.

i went down to visit my friend who has cna level so he cannot go wrong he find the same as me hp xw 6000 is not compatible with this server version because the intel chipset driver supported just for xp.

we have did several different server installation but when the server identifying network it locks up because the unidentified network.

also we tried several way of setup the network but soon as the server rebooted and the client pc is disconnected from the switch we got the limited acces on the server also we did on static hub where we was able to ping the server also from server the client.but again when we reboot the server we get back to the same stage.

 

we install server 2000 and server 2003 r2 and sbs server 2003 all works perfect.

 

my question is just why microsoft did make this silly operating system if don't work.why this server 2008 if is set as domain controller it won't show up with connected icon when is plugged to the switch or hub.

 

we folow all the rooles it shows up without errors in server rooles but we still get limited acces on the network card.

i did contact microsoft and they sad i need to have latest hardware,but again i believe is to silly to swap some nice 2 year old server like a socks.

 

did enyone know the answer? i bet no one...i add the printscreen

[anyweb]

normally if you are installing a server OS you would install it on hardware that is sold to be a server,

 

have you tried installing the Windows VISTA chipset and network drivers for this HP ? the vista drivers should work just fine....

[gigi74]

normally if you are installing a server OS you would install it on hardware that is sold to be a server,

 

have you tried installing the Windows VISTA chipset and network drivers for this HP ? the vista drivers should work just fine....

 

 

hi

 

thank you for reply i hope i no disturb you.yep actually what you see on the screen that is vista based dualcore hp server i read few forums but this problem has few people on vista rc1 or rc2 also on few servers when they update the cpu to higher or update the ram they get this issue.

for me it looks like when you playing with vga validation sometime when you change hardare you have to reactivate the licence.

so maybe someting similar cause this problem.

i also tried to disable the sense in registry.but nothing happend.also i disable installation verification procedure (ivp6) manualy and via registry.still the fault exist.

my next step is to test on vista based server (enviroment)

 

but i telling you i don't reccoment this software is peace of crap.i believe if microsoft developers gonna continue this way one day they gonna loose people trust because the life is not just about making money.of corse we all need some $ but also quality.

 

i let you know how i am going.actually i have few friend who programming (open source)gpl. soon as i know what cause this we make some program to fix this and i believe so many people gonna be happy till microsoft no gonna sreew up again something with service pack.

 

see you again

[gigi74]

Hi

 

i am back again we still have this issue going on actualy i find Microsoft has issued some hotfix but the comment been removed from them website. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/956721/EN-US

 

they made kb956721 in sp to resolve this issue

 

Win Vista Enterprise 32bit AL: The DNS Client service and the NLA service crash intermittently in Windows Vista SP1 and in Windows Server 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/956721/EN-US

 

but this is not available any more on this link.

 

i gonna be back soon with moor info.

[gigi74]

normally if you are installing a server OS you would install it on hardware that is sold to be a server,

 

have you tried installing the Windows VISTA chipset and network drivers for this HP ? the vista drivers should work just fine....

 

 

hi

 

finaly sorted its still have the exclamation mark but works.

 

we went down on pain with this blody operating system.of corse who r thinking to jump on server 2008 and he is got server 2003 plese just stay with 2003 for a while.you dont have to migrate your server stay on ris or wds if you like.server 2008 has absolute diferent active directory trust and policies they r moor strickt than 2000 or 2003.so to setup ris or wds on server 2003 its moor straight than 2008.

 

so hee is the solution for those who get this pain.if you no gonna beable to get run your server as dns and the active directory fail with error could not connect tothespecified dns and your dhcp from client not respond when you ping and same when you ping your dns.then ......

 

you have to install 2003 and do upgrade to 2008 you can find in attachment the ris server 2003 setup i no gonna explain how to do this because its simple.so make shure you set this correctly then you have to prepare your server for upgrade.

usualy the server works in mixed mode you need to change this to native mode.then you have to use your dvd and in source search for adprerp

then you have to add the folowing command in command line:

 

check your dvd rom drive for letter in my case was F:

 

cd f:\sources\adprerp

 

then adprep/ forestprep

 

 

 

after this its take a bit time youhave to add the

 

adprep/ domainprep

 

after pressing enter if you not done the native mode change on active directory thrust ten you will see in command line warning so you must do to get finish domainprep correctly.if you running 2000 server you have to reise for server 2003 then you gonna beable to do the update.

 

if this finish you can go head on to upgrade here is the link with pictures upgrade from server 2003 to server 2008

 

 

so finaly we done the upgrad and the server start apply all the policies etc etc then dns dhcp active directory and wds are ok.

 

dont forgot if you have previously set up images on your server 2003 you gonna loose this because wds on server 2008 understand just wim extention.so you have to get your image back to wds folder otherwise you gonna have error from wds on client pc image not faund..

if you adding vista you just search for wim extention on the cd.if you would lik to add xp you have to create image via windows pe and deploy via imagex.

 

so now again back to my blody issue the server works fine i can png the server via ip and the dns via name also i get response from dhcp and the active directory works.but when i reboot he server and i havent got client connected to server i get the exclamation mark with limited access.to get rid of this i just conneect client and try to join domain then the dns and the dhcp start working.or if you do twice F12 network boot this wake the server.don't ask me why i think is related to policies and also to ipmi if you havent got this on your server in device manager then you gonna be in que with me with the same issue.

finaly we apply the sp2 and we using server.of corse on the begining with exclamation mark

there r so many way to do windows depoyment the cheapest is trough linux here is the link ris on linux

 

thank you for reading

 

regards

 

gigi

setup_a_ris_server_in_3_easy_steps.pdf

[anyweb]

thanks for the update !