How do I disable Clustering?

[Kiehlster]

When I set up the server, I didn't do anything, that I know of, that would make WS2003 to turn into a cluster. But after running through the "Manage Your Server" wizard a couple times to enable IIS and RDC, it suddenly put itself into some sort of cluster mode that I have no idea how to get out of.

Does anyone know how to disable clustering? I've tried the cluster administrator, but I have no clue the name of the cluster or node in order to remove the server from this phantom cluster.

Steve Kiehl
Web Page Designer - Nanovox Productions
Fantasy Artist - Zeadi

 

[tfg13]

On your network connections, highlight your current network connection, properties, and uncheck "Network Load Balancing". This should end your "clustering server" nightmare.

 

[Kiehlster]

That's the problem. I checked to make sure "Network Load Balancing" was unchecked on all three nics, and it wasn't checked on any of them. After making sure they were unchecked, I removed the service all together for extra precaution, but that didn't help either.

Steve Kiehl
Web Page Designer - Nanovox Productions
Fantasy Artist - Zeadi

 

[moorethan]

what makes you think it is part of a cluster. What are the symptoms and messages. W2003 installs the clustering icons and stuff by default but they are not enabled.

 

[Kiehlster]

When I log in as the Admin, I get this message:

"Configure Your Server Wizard:

Because this server is a member of a server cluster (also called a cluster node), you cannot configure it with the Configure Your Server Wizard. For information about managing server clusters, see Help and Support."

So I basically can't use the handy server config wizard because it thinks it's in a cluster.

Steve Kiehl
Web Page Designer - Nanovox Productions
Fantasy Artist - Zeadi

 

[tfg13]

According to this article, you can manually remove it, if you do not plan to ever have it in another cluster:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;257928

and here is another article:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;282227

 

[Kiehlster]

Would this issue have something to do with it being Dual-processor with HT? I don't want to go hacking around to remove clustering, but there doesn't seem to be any normal way to turn it all off.

Steve Kiehl
Web Page Designer - Nanovox Productions
Fantasy Artist - Zeadi

 

[tfg13]

I think this is a totally unrelated incident, and nothing to do with Dual-processor/Hyper-threading. If the above suggestion aren't really what you are looking for (I don't blame you, the registry is a DEEP place with it being very easy to hose up your system), maybe the gurus over in forum737 have an idea of how you can fix it....