Ghost NIC Interface

[Guest]

I've experienced this problem
I've attempted to rebuild (in a disaster recovery operation) an entire domain controller on a machine with dissimilar hardware and in particualar with a different NIC interface (on the old machine there was a Fast Ethernet PCI Realtek NIC and in the new machine there is an embedded NIC Controller Compaq 1 Gbit)
I've installed a new clean installation of the same Windows 2003 server as a stand-alone server in workgroup and then, after reboot in Directory Service Restore Mode (F8), i've restored the System State from a previous backup
All seem work well but the setting of the (new) NIC interface was different from that on the old machine
At this point i've attempted to change this (new) setting and manually restore the old settings (in particular the old IP address) but a message on the screen tell me that: "The IP address (i.e. 192.168.1.10) for this NIC is assigned to the "NIC Fast Ethernet PCI...." (the old NIC on the old machine that isn't installed on the new machine); the "NIC Fast Ethernet PCI..." is hidden in the network connection folder because is not phisically installed on the computer or is a previous NIC interface that is not working
At this point I've forced the old IP address (192.168.1.10) on the new NIC (Gigabit Ethernet) and all seems work fine
The question is
in wich manner is possible to eliminate the warning message and, in any case, is this a real problem for the migration to the new domain controller machine
Thanks you and bye from Italy

 

[Scott Harding - MS MVP]

See if this helps....I ran into this all the time when using ghost and
different NICS.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;269155&Product=win2000

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Scott Harding
MCSE, MCSA, A+, Network+
Microsoft MVP - Windows NT Server

I've experienced this problem.
I've attempted to rebuild (in a disaster recovery operation) an entire

domain controller on a machine with dissimilar hardware and in particualar
with a different NIC interface (on the old machine there was a Fast Ethernet
PCI Realtek NIC and in the new machine there is an embedded NIC Controller
Compaq 1 Gbit).

I've installed a new clean installation of the same Windows 2003 server as

a stand-alone server in workgroup and then, after reboot in Directory
Service Restore Mode (F8), i've restored the System State from a previous
backup.

All seem work well but the setting of the (new) NIC interface was

different from that on the old machine.

At this point i've attempted to change this (new) setting and manually

restore the old settings (in particular the old IP address) but a message on
the screen tell me that: "The IP address (i.e. 192.168.1.10) for this NIC is
assigned to the "NIC Fast Ethernet PCI...." (the old NIC on the old machine
that isn't installed on the new machine); the "NIC Fast Ethernet PCI..." is
hidden in the network connection folder because is not phisically installed
on the computer or is a previous NIC interface that is not working"

At this point I've forced the old IP address (192.168.1.10) on the new NIC

(Gigabit Ethernet) and all seems work fine.

The question is:
in wich manner is possible to eliminate the warning message and, in any

case, is this a real problem for the migration to the new domain controller
machine?

 

[Guest]

I've tried your solutiom, it work fine
Thanks you
Cosimo