After installing Win 2003 Service Pack 2 on a few machines, some started having this problem where the Network Connections folder is empty! My network connections still work (I still can connect and so on), just that I can’t see the network connections and hence can’t change the settings. WTF a service pack did this. Surprisingly only one of my servers was not affected.
Look around the net, didn’t really help, until I came to a post from Crapola. Apprantly his AD had problems after install Sp2. The solution was actually quite simple.
- Change Network Connection service to “Automatic” (Don’t know why it was set to manual)
- Look for the RPC service and changed the Log on user to “Local System Account”
And all should work. Dumb service pack…
