The RPC server is unavailable when I try to configure IP

Question

_{Thursday, April 28, 2011 12:38 PM}

netsh interface ipv4 add address "wan0" xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx and netmask give me an error: The RPC server is unavailable

firewall is disabled and rpc service is running, any idea what else to check? it's a big problem since I have to raise a client website...

thank you

All replies (6)

_{Friday, April 29, 2011 7:40 AM ✅Answered}

Hi,

 

Did you run a core installation of Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2008 R2? Did you login to the computer locally and then run the command line?

 

Please check the following guide.

 

Server Core Installation Option Getting Started Guide

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=B16F4DC4-A3D3-4DC7-AA51-A1C6728B217A

 

If you are using the core installation of Windows Server 2008 R2, you can use the following tool.

 

Core Configurator 2.0 (x64)

http://coreconfig.codeplex.com/

 

 

Best Regards,

Vincent Hu

 

 

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_{Thursday, April 28, 2011 12:41 PM}

I also found this in event log: The master browser has received a server announcement from the computer MS that believes that it is the master browser for the domain on transport NetBT_Tcpip

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_{Monday, December 17, 2012 4:44 PM}

If your Core Server = W2k8R2 use this command on your Core Server:

To allow all MMC snap-ins to connect, at a command prompt, type:

Netsh advfirewall firewall set rule group=“remote administration” new enable=yes

After this you can use Eventviewer remote.

Best Regards,

Hamid

Thanks Vincent.

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_{Wednesday, February 15, 2017 1:38 PM | 2 votes}

Hello everybody,

I know that subject is really old, but right today I struggled with it the same way.
After all I found out that netsh does not want to work configuring any ip interfaces if the "dhcp client service" is not running on the machine.
From my point of view a quite s...surprising dependency especially because I wanted to use netsh to configure a static ip address where the dhcp client definitely should not be necessary.

For whom ever it may be helpful.

Best regards,
Robin

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_{Friday, September 7, 2018 12:44 AM}

Thx Robin!
Nailed it.

Cheers

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_{Monday, October 7, 2019 1:17 AM}

You, sir, saved me SO much grief. 10/10 <3

Some people disabled DHCP for their servers and was messing up the IP change scripts.