DHCP Server does nor respond

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daveM

I setup DHCP on a WIN Server2003, SP1, simple, single scope, ip of router,
dns server, two reservations and a pool of 100 addressess. Same as I had on
the Netware server I am trying to retire. After authorizing the service and
then activating the scope it does not respond to clients, all XP, SP2.
Worked fine on a test server with a workstation.

Scope indicates "Active" status but clients return message that a DHCP
server cannot be found. IPCONFIG /RENEW retrurns message that a DHCP server
cannot be found. Its there and its the domain controller and DNS server
also and DNS works fine.
What am I doing wrong. I unloaded dhcpserver.nlm on the NW server first.

dave Admin
 
Hi Dave,

What do your DHCP logs state? Is the server seeing the requests?

Also, I've noticed Windows 'caches' DHCP server info - so an ipconfig /renew
will attempt to connect to the previous server. A restart of the workstation
usually allows Windows to use the new DHCP server.

Jeff
 
dave Admin said:
Jeff,

yes, the restart worked where the /renew did not
Click to expand...

Doing "/release" before "/renew" probably would have also worked.

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