server 2003 prepairing network connections

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Wang191

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I'm running server 2003 standard and bootup is taking a long time. It stays for a really long time on "Prepairing network connections" then finally gets to the logon screen.
It did not do this when I first installed this.


Specs: soyo 6ba+IV PIII 800mhz 512mb ram (not oc'd)
30 gig maxtor dimond max hd (its on a 10gig partition)
The system is used in a home environment for basic fileserving and is also now being used as the demo comptuer for my senior design project which is a home automation system.


any insight would be helpful

Edit: This happens wether or not the network cable is plugged in.
 
Is it set up for or has it been changed to run Active Directory?

Slow logons usually mean a DNS problem and DNS would be used in AD.
 
Yeah right now this is running as a domain controler and is running active directory.
 
Yeh, teh server should be set with a static IP and have itself for the DNS server to use, the DNS service could also have the ISP DNS servers as "forwarders"
 
dbwillis said:
Yeh, teh server should be set with a static IP and have itself for the DNS server to use, the DNS service could also have the ISP DNS servers as "forwarders"
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That covers all I was going to say.

Triple-check this and it should be golden.
 
I broke my install. (I tried setting it up on a different controller card, installed a driver and it went down hill from there.)
So I don't get to find out what actually caused the problem.

Thanks for the help tho. If this happens again that'll be the first thing I check.
 
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