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    I do not know what I was thinking but somehow I did it!! :(

    I clicked the restore defaults in the Advanced tab of the Windows Firewall settings. As soon as I did, it closed my Remote desktop connection, disconnected from the WHS consoles and now I cannot even ping the server!
    Since this is the HP MediaSmart server, there is no monitor or CD Drive on it!

    How can I restore the firewall settings so that I can get in again? Cannot afford to lose any data obviously!!!

    Any help/ideas would be highly appreciated!!! Please help!!!!

    TAS
    Thursday, September 25, 2008 3:11 AM

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    TASharma said:


    I do not know what I was thinking but somehow I did it!! :(

    I clicked the restore defaults in the Advanced tab of the Windows Firewall settings. As soon as I did, it closed my Remote desktop connection, disconnected from the WHS consoles and now I cannot even ping the server!
    Since this is the HP MediaSmart server, there is no monitor or CD Drive on it!

    How can I restore the firewall settings so that I can get in again? Cannot afford to lose any data obviously!!!

    Any help/ideas would be highly appreciated!!! Please help!!!!

    TAS


    Your only real option is Server Recovery.  It will wipe the OS partition, but leave everything else in tact.
    Thursday, September 25, 2008 4:27 AM
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    TASharma said:


    I do not know what I was thinking but somehow I did it!! :(

    I clicked the restore defaults in the Advanced tab of the Windows Firewall settings. As soon as I did, it closed my Remote desktop connection, disconnected from the WHS consoles and now I cannot even ping the server!
    Since this is the HP MediaSmart server, there is no monitor or CD Drive on it!

    How can I restore the firewall settings so that I can get in again? Cannot afford to lose any data obviously!!!

    Any help/ideas would be highly appreciated!!! Please help!!!!

    TAS


    Your only real option is Server Recovery.  It will wipe the OS partition, but leave everything else in tact.
    Thursday, September 25, 2008 4:27 AM
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     Thank you... at first it really scared me but there had to be a way I thought. Browsing on the net, I found how to restore the box. The restore went fine, but the last part of the software installs for some reason got stuck at 23% for the whole night. In the morning I just cancelled the setup and rebooted the server.
    Everything came up fine, no data was lost.
    Sigh!

    Thanks again!
    Saturday, September 27, 2008 4:27 AM