ARD client ate my server HELP!

[Anonymous]

10.3.9 server, doing AFP and mail

Everything fine until I installed ARD client on the server. (Didn’t notice anything was wrong until reboot after power failure after installing ARD client, but I’m pretty sure it’s ARD not the untidy power-down that is to blame)

Now the server doesn’t serve.
It boots and the OS comes up.
I can ping it
No afp or mail service
Server admin says that there is no server at that address

HELP I need this working before the start of work tomorrow!

Any ideas for how to recussitate my server gratefully received.

Thanks

[Zeheeba]

Hello Siemaszko,

Boot up your server and read your /etc/hostconfig file. It should have many lines reflecting what services are enabled as well as setting host names etc. I’ve had a problem before when serveradmin was reporting no server at the proper IP address and not being able to manage the server. The problem was this file was empty. How this happened, who knows, but check that file. It should have entries such as:

# /etc/hostconfig
##
# This file is maintained by the system control panels
#Network Configuration
HOSTNAME=your.server.com
ROUTER=-AUTOMATIC-
# Services
AFPSERVER=-YES-
APPLETALK=-en0-
SERVERMANAGERSERVER=-YES-

There are many more lines. If you have another server on the same version as the trouble server, check out that servers /etc/hostconfig. I can’t post a full one right now, but someone else may be able to.

Hope this helps.

Regards,
Z

[Anonymous]

Thanks guys

ARD was a red herring – it was a disc gone bad. It was a coincidence it happened at the same time i installed ARD. Had to do a fresh install in the end 🙁

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