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RPC server unavailable error – Microsoft Internet Connection Sharing (ICS)

October 18th, 2006
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Thought of mentioning this as I’ve came across it and noticed many others did too.

If for some reason, whenever you try enabling internet connection sharing (ICS), you get an error saying that the rpc server is unavailable, do the following:

  1. Click on start > run
  2. type services.msc and hit enter
  3. Search for the DHCP Client service, and check its status, it will most probably be stopped.
  4. Double click on this service, change its status to automatic and hit start

that’s it.

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  1. Marcel Marien
    November 15th, 2008 at 18:24 | #1
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    tried it, but it leads to error 1068: the DHCP Client service can not be started

  2. admin
    November 17th, 2008 at 02:46 | #2
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    Can you try going the following debugging steps?

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