Hi all,
Well, i think im out of ideas, so some new ideas would be appreciated ...
When i say ping, i'm pinging the IP not the hostname. All IP's are static
Ok, Environment
Server 2003 R2 with SP1, Single Gigabit NIC (Nvidia).
DC, DNS, RRA, Apache
Everything was working great, then i tried to install VMWare server on it....
I saw the warnings about not installing it on a domain controller, and i did some research saying that it mainly effected DNS on the server and not the physical interfaces....
So i installed it.
Seemed fine, after install i rebooted, thats when i hit some issues.
Clients could not ping the server on its host interface. I disabled the virtual adapters, still couldn't ping. It was late at this time so i removed VMware, ran CCleaner and assumed all would be ok again after a reboot. Rebooted. Nope.
So i threw another PCI network card in there that i know for a fact works. (at this stage VMware is removed) It got a DHCP address...... Still couldn't ping on either interafce. So i rebooted the switch. Same. Changed ports on the switch. Same. Tried a different switch. Same.
Without thinking i then tried to ping a client. That worked. i could browse the web and everything from the server. So i thought maybe the clients could ping again. Nope.
So i thought, its blocking incoming traffic. There is NO firewall on the server, there is no router between the clients and the server, same network, same subnet (192.168.0.x, 255.255.255.0)
So i thought, maybe i didn't do the right thing when i uninstalled VMware. reinstalled it, no change whatso ever.
Reinstalled the lan card drivers. No change
Routed 2 virtual adapters from vmware to 2 sepeate physical NIC's on the server, made sure the main one was excluded from the group. no change still couldnt ping, uncpath, get web access from apache. Server can still see the clients.
So obviously its a windows issue, but just wondering if there is any chance its VMware..... the server installed flawlessly on my CentOS box, just installing VMware server on my windows server thats cauing an issue
Where its at now:
Server still has VMWare, 3 physical NIC's
So i've been searching the forums here for the last hour and a half and found nothing.... so sorry in advance if i missed something...
Any thoughts greatly appreciated 