mac address?

[Guest]

I have bought a friends old copy of small business server 2000, and have
installed it, my problem is this, it is saying cant find the mac address,
which i assume is the network card that it was originally assigned to on his
old machine. He has taken off his machine and has upgraded to 2003, I have
bought it so as I can use it learning how to do the 70/270 exam. I have hit
a wall and dont know how to get my network card enabled with SBS2000.
I have a floppy that enables 5 licences for the old card, so I would assume
that even if I got my network card enabled and seen, that the 5 licence
agreement would still be looking at the old network cards. How secure is
this software? He has told me that he had a nightmare when he had to change
over to a new server, as all new cards etc didn't work in tha same way as I
am having. I think he ended up giving up and buying 2003. Surely there must
be a way of transferring from one server to another without to much hassle?
Any help is appreciated

 

[Robert L [MS-MVP]]

perhaps it is no thing to do with the SBS 2000 software. posting the result
of the ipconfig /all may help.

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[Guest]

no my mate was here when we where trying to load it and it was looking for
the right macc address, he reckons that it was looking for his old netword
card that it was registered to, the ipconfiguration is ok, everything sees
everything, its the loading the rest of the configuration of SBS2000 that
hangs up on the macc.