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I did some searching and I cam to the same conclusion. I bet somewhere there is a solution. Someone always come up with a work around.

If you're not seeing any devices in network connection manager then you need to install the drivers for your network card.

It shouldn't need a reboot to make new folders visible betwwen servers. I don't know what would cause this. Mis-configuration of the raid array most likely.

If you are going to make the move go to Windows 2008. You are going to have do a clean install no matter what you do. No upgrade path in server environment like there is in desktop operating systems. More than likely your apps will need retooling no matter which version you choose. The problem going from 2000 to 2008 is it is a major kernel version change. NT5 to NT6. Every time you have that kind of change you'll have problems with apps. There are a few threads in this forum detailing the problems devs have had with their apps. You're best bet would to migrate to Windows 2003 which is a minor kernel version change, NT5 > NT5.1. Best thing I can suggest is to download the eval, install it and test it out before you make the final decision. In my case I went 2000 > 2003 shortly after the R2 release and I am just about done transitioning to 2008. I have 2 servers left. If you don't want to make the big leap then maybe a stop at Windows 2003 would be best. OTOH, you'll eventually have to move to Windows 2008 and since R2 is in beta once you do upgrade to Windows 2008 you'll have many years before you have to make this kind of decision again. As far as IIS goes the changes aren't as severe. What runs on IIS5 will run on IIS6 and IIS7 also. The only problem I've had is making sure compatibility mode is turned on for legacy asp apps. Management console in Windows 2008 is a little confusing when you first open it up. Once you use it you soon realize the power of it.

Make sure you have the drivers installed for you wireless card. Without it you will not be able to connect wireless.

That version is the newest beta version. Windows 2008 R2 is in beta. Read http://serverforum.org/f35/windows-server-2008-r2-beta-download-279.html and follow the ink to download the beta. More than likely you have a copy of the original Windows 2008 beta which is now expired for use.

The only thing I can think of is you don't have it enabled in the bios. When I tried to install Hyper-V when I was beta testing Vista and Windows 2008 I had the same problem. Turns out virtualization was turned off in the bios. If it is on then I really don't see why it won't install.

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Let us know what the final results are. I just enabled Hyper-V on the backup server for this site. So far I have Windows 2008 R2 beta and FreeBSD running on it. I plan to move a site to the FreeBSD install to do some testing.

I can't find any info on this. The porocessor should indeed support a Hyper-V instal of Windows 2008. The only thing I can think of the hotfix didn't install correctly. As the knowledge base page said are you sure you needed the fix?

Is this wireless N by chance? I just installed a wireless N card in one of my computers to take advantage of the higher speeds and the wireless N router I just added to my network. I can not connect with RDP to any of my servers. Not even the Windows 2003 servers that I still have online. I can connect via wireless B/G and cable.

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Might want to try this article. Configuring a Two-Node File Server Failover Cluster

If you are hitting the 2048 file limit there is isn't much you could do.

Everything look good with your permissions so I'm not sure what wouold be causing you the problems. I was having similir problems with permissions and after a reboot everything worked as planned. Maybe a reboot will help in your case.

Any wireless nic card that works in Vista will work with Windows 2008.

Re: OK, So Microsoft recognise the problem too... What a pain to figure out. I set my script tasks arnd forget about them. Maybe I shouldmake sure they are running correctly and that settings are correct. Thanks for the link also.

Do you have 2 instances of myql installed? If not you could be hitting the hard limit for open files in windows 2008 which is 2048. Maybe you have no file descriptors left. Do you have anything running that would use up all those rsources?

Thanks. I'll check those 2 out.

Thanks for replying back and glad you got it worked out.

I run a few php scripts and have no problems. Maybe there is something missing ion the configuartion.