Server invisible - Firewall Service not startet

[chrismo]

Hello

 

I have a huge problem with my new windows server 2008. My Server is invisible to all other network clients, but can connect to all clients and to the internet. I tried to Ping, connect with rdp, connect to smb...nothing works.

 

There is a small icon on the taskbar that says "connectionstate: unknown" if i open it, there is a wizard that tells me that there was no network found.

(i don't now if that has something toto with my problem, but maybe)

 

the other zstrange thing is that i am unable to start firewall, it tells me that a dependent service called BFE is not startet. if i try to start this BFE service, there is an error: Error 5, Access Denied.

 

i have not done very much things with the server after setup, this is all what i ve done:

 

 

- windows updates

- connected to my domain

- installed domain server role

- installed printserver role -> since i activated this role the server is invisible. i saw that the server did several windows updates befor rebooting after activating this role

 

 

can anyone help me?

[C-Prompt]

This article might be helpful:

 

"Access Denied" Error Message When Trying to Start a Service in Windows 2000

 

While it addresses Windows 2000 the same will apply to Windows 2008.