Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition: Wireless Issue.

[[BB] Rick James]

Here at work we are having issues connecting one of our 2003 servers to a wireless network. It appears as if it just won't connect. Almost as if it loops itself when prompted for the network key. Like we didn't enter it. Kind of a weird issue.

Anyone have a work around for this or ever experienced this? We are allowing Windows to handle the connection.

 

[swatbat]

First off is it running sp1? SP1 adds better support for wireless. Also try using the software that came with the card. Bad question though why are you connecting a server useing wireless? I use 2003 on my notebook so I use the wireless to connect at school but for a normal production server it doesn't make a lot of sence. I will say from my experience even with sp1 2003 sucks for wireless.

 

[[BB] Rick James]

Eh, I'm a dumbass. I was trying to connect to the wrong network. LOL... it's been a long day. I got called into work at about 12:30 to fix some PCs that went down in the plant. Needless to say I'm still here and I'm supposed to be at a lan party right now.

I need a cold one. Thanks for being there guys. ^^ Thanks for the help.


Oh to answer your question. I'm using wireless on 2003 becuase this is a server that we use in the manufacturing plant. The entire plant is wireless, no cat5 anywhere in this building. So I have no option but to go wireless. It's not a server that is used for really anything important, so it's not high end or anything like that. It's got an 108mb wireless connection running for it with a signal strength of Excellent. Does the job.

 

[swatbat]

I know that feeling bro. We got hit around here with some bad storms yesterday. I ened up shutting down a bunch of our clients servers knowing that the battery backups would not hold with power going up and down so fast. Spent a good part of the morning going onsite and bringing systems back up.