70-640 - Core Commands Problem!

BeerBelly

Hi going through the book and installed Core 2008.

Changed the name fine but having real trouble configuring the netwotk connection (on Page 28 if anyone else has the books) - tried every combination of the command, but receive error message, also broken command down, but can' get passed the name part.

trying different combos of this:

netsh interface ipv4 set address name="Local Area Connection"

If leave blank after the name= it works, so ineffect have currently renamed my connection to [blank] - what syntax have I got wrong?


Its on a VM and the NIC is connected to the vm.

dynamik

That's not the entire command. Check this out: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc738592.aspx#BKMK_1

Those aren't three separate lines, that's just the way they wrap on the page.

You need to enter:

netsh interface ipv4 set address name="Local Area Connection" source=static address=10.0.0.12 mask=255.255.255.0 gateway=10.0.0.1 1

The "name" parameter must match what the network connection is named. That isn't used to set the name.

BeerBelly

Thanks - did type the entire string first, but will try again.

By default, isn't the connection called "Local Area Network" on a clean install of Core 2008 STD?

BeerBelly

Think I know what it is.

VMTools didn't install properly.

Have just done a custom install only choosing drivers. Hopefully make adapt visible to Core (in ipconfig) - will then repeat command.

Cheers