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How to enable the network connection for windows server 2003 from DOS

Hi,

I have a server that have problem power. Friend of mine disable the network card by mistake and we are not able to enable it again because we already disable the USB from the device manager and we don't have PS/2 on this kind of server.So, my question is: how can i enable the network cad on windows server 2003 from DOS or from any bootable CD to correct this mistake?

thank you in advance.

Brian Pierce

I do not understand the issue. Presumably this is an internal network card ?
Just go to Network settings, right click on the network connection and enable it.

farazhkhan

Hi,

You can use

"netsh interface set interface (nameofInterface) DISABLED"

to disable and

"netsh interface set interface (nameofInterface) ENABLED"

to enable

Check this: https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/21979475/disable-enable-wireless-lan-with-a-dos-command.html

Regards,
Faraz H. Khan

Rob Williams

I assume the problem is you have no keyboard.
If you have no PS/2 connector, you have disabled USB, and the network connection/card is disabled, how are you going to use DOS? If the network was working you could remote in to it with DOS and Sysinternals PSexec, or just use remote desktop to access various control panels, but it appears you do not have that option.

This is not a good position to be in. also disabling the LAN card on an SBS server can result in corruption of many services. If you manage to reconnect you need to rerun the Configure server IP wizard and the CEICW.

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aaltayeb

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Many thanks,
You helped me to fix my problem by follow your steps.