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Removing TCPIP from Windows 2000 Server

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by mcrowley

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I'm running Pervasive.SQL 2000 on a Windows 2000 Server which had been running well for a while. All of a sudden, I am unable to connect to the Pervasive.SQL engine, and all arrows point to TCP/IP as the culprit. So, they suggest I uninstall and reinstall TCP/IP. A simple request, right??? Wrong. I can uncheck TCP/IP from the list of protocols I'm using, but I cannot Uninstall the protocol from the machine. The button for Uninstall is greyed out. I have removed DHCP, DNS, WINS, SNMP, and IIS, all of which were running on the machine. I then rebooted, and still cannot completely remove TCP/IP.

I'm running Active Directory on this server in mixed mode.

I have attempted installing IPX in its place, and that had no effect.

Isthis a problem because I am running ADS??? Can I not remove TCP/IP from a Primary Domain Controller??? Or am I missing another service which has to be uninstalled???

Any help would be appreciated.

Michael Crowley
Network Engineer
mcrowley@summitbiz.com

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by ruturaj

ADS requires DNS & DHCP (TCP/IP Services on a DC) that being the case Windows 2000 Domains (mixed or native)cannot exist without TCP/IP.
You would be better of installing the above mentioned server as a stand alone server reinstalling the application & protocols you need.
(AND NO YOU CANNOT REMOVE TCP/IP FROM A DOMAIN CONTROLLER MIXED OR NATIVE)

by tony.colgrove

As answer 1 was pointing to: Active Directory REQUIRES TCP/IP. Since this machine is a DC you cannot uninstall IP. You only hopes to remove TCP/IP are to dcpromo (to demote it), but hopefully you have another Win2K DC running, or your whole domainwill get screwed up.

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