David M Williams's questions

Help!

I don't know what happened; this server has been very reliable but suddenly began having problems with a particular .NET 2.0 web site simply hanging - it wouldn't load at all. However, another ASP.NET site was still fine. Reinstalling the site didn't fix it, nor did deleting and re-creating the application within IIS.

Trying the event viewer was met with a horrifying "Microsoft Management Console has stopped working".

Some Googling led me to believe the .NET framework was the problem. I found a tool called the .NET cleanup tool - http://blogs.msdn.com/astebner/pages/8904493.aspx - which cleaned out .NET entirely. I reinstalled .NET 1.1 and 3.5 (which installed 2.0 and 3.0 as well). Using the .NET verification tool - http://blogs.msdn.com/astebner/pages/8999004.aspx - I believe these have all installed ok.

However, my server is in worse shape now. The Exchange 2010 Management Console crashes with an MMC error and now my other (previously reliable) .NET web app now hangs on loading too.

I thought I should use Computer Management to remove and re-add the application and web server roles but sure enough, MMC crashes.

If anyone can help I will be extremely grateful.

Thank you !

Help - I have a server which keeps rebooting. It brings up the Windows Server 2003 loading screen then reboots, continually.

This happens whether I use normal mode, safe mode or last known good.

I turned off auto-rebooting and got a BSOD with the message "Stop: 0x0000007b (oxf789ea94, 0xc000000e, 0x00000000, 0x00000000)"

I can boot from a Windows Server 2008 disc I have (but for some reason it won't boot from my Windows Server 2003 disc?) and go into the recovery console. I ran CHKDSK /F C: and this showed a number of problems which were allegedly corrected.

I'm leaning towards some system files being corrupted. I can mount the Server 2003 R2 CD as a folder (the server is some distance away; I'm using the HP ILO console) so I can expand and restore files from the CD.

So, what files should I restore?? Or, does anyone have any other suggestions for gathering more information on the root problem?

Thank you so much!

I'm having trouble setting up a static IP reservation on a network. What I want to do is assign IP 192.168.1.105 to MAC address 00:21:5d:2f:58:04 and then port forward 35394 to it.

If it helps, output from show ver says Cisco IOS software, C870 software (C870-ADVSECURITYK9-M), version 12.4(4)T7, release software (fc1) ROM: System bootstrap, version 12.3(8r)YI4, release software

I have done this -

service dhcp
ip routing
ip dhcp excluded-address 192.168.1.1 192.168.1.99
ip dhcp excluded-address 192.168.1.200 192.168.1.255

ip dhcp pool ClientDHCP
network 192.168.1.0 255.255.255.0
default-router 192.168.1.1
dns-server 192.168.1.1
lease 7

ip dhcp pool NEO
host 192.168.1.105 255.255.255.0
hardware-address 0021.5D2F.5804

ip nat inside source static tcp 192.168.1.105 35394 <PUBLIC_IP> 35394 extendable

However, the machine is getting assigned IP address 192.168.1.101 not .105 ... any suggestions?

Thanks !

I am being driven to frustration by this problem.

I have set up a file called wpad.dat (essentially, a proxy.pac file renamed) and put it on an internal web site. I've set up DNS entries so host name wpad is a CNAME for the web server. I set the appropriate MIME type for .dat files on the web site. I removed wpad from the DNS global query block list.

I know the config file is syntactically correct because if I manually set Internet Explorer's "use automatic configuration script" to http://wpad/wpad.dat the proxy is clearly being used (ie, I see my browsing show up in log files plus certain sites I've denied come up with my replacement page.)

However, it is my understanding that all I should need to do is tick the box for "Automatically detect settings" and Internet Explorer should itself go look for http://wpad/wpad.dat - or, more correctly, http://wpad.localdomain/wpad.dat - which does also work.

Can anyone help me diagnose this problem? I just cannot see what I have missed or what is wrong.

Thank you !!

(Note, it is also possible to set the auto config file using DHCP, however we have a multi-site organisation with DHCP provided by a mixture of servers and routers depending on location as well as remote offices using 3G cellular modems which have very basic DHCP facilities. Plus, it is only Internet Explorer which allegedly supports web proxy auto discovery via DHCP - neither Firefox nor Safari do. We don't actually use either of those browsers but for the sake of maximum compatibility plus ease of future administration/changes I think it's surely better to get this working via a nice single DNS entry.)