From what I see here there are still 2 things that make me
think DHCP is still not truely enabled on the client
side. First, is the DHCP Enabled saying NO. The subnet is
also still at 255.255.255.255 which means the only IP this
unit will talk with is itself. Depending on your subnet
in the network it would normally be something like
255.255.0.0 . What this means is that in your case the
network would have it's first two octets set in stone. IE
the 192.168 The other two octets would then be dynamic
and assigned by DHCP. So, when a client asks for an IP
DHCP would then "Lease" an IP to the computer normally
this is set to 3 days. For demonstration, this first
computer would get 192.168.0.1 . The next would get
192.168.0.2 and so on. As computers keep asking for IP's
DHCP will give out the lower IP's before it gives another
from the pool. So if both of the computers were turned
off for 3 days and then came in but the second one came in
first, it would get the IP of 192.168.0.1 and so on. If
the leases were not released yet and those same machines
come back in a 3 day period they will get their original
IP's that they first got from DHCP. Sorry for this being
so long winded but I want to try to help you understand
some of this better. Now, to try and explain the
255.255.0.0 better. This means that the last two octets
that your DHCP assigns can change. 192.168.0.255 on up to
192.168.255.255 . This does get confusing so hang in
there!
Now, when I see in your IPCONFIG /ALL the
subnet is 255.255.255.255 which means that IP will only
speak to itself. Again, from what it looks like the IP
you have for this machine is still static and that with
the subnet as it is it can only use itself as it's own
gateway. Now, I am relaying this from a 2000 machine so
if you do this with XP there may be some differences but
it will be close. Go ahead and open the dial up
connection but do not dial. Click properties. When the
properties window opens, the fourth tab should be
Networking. The first selection for a dial in should
normally be PPP/Win 95, 98,NT4, 2000/Internet. Down below
that TCP/IP and Client for Microsoft Networks should be
checked. Highlight the TCP/IP and click that properties.
Here is where Obtain an IP address automatically should be
selected to use DHCP from your server. The other about
DNS should also be set to obtain DNS automatically. And
finally...select Advanced. This will have the use defualt
gateway on remote network so make sure this is selected as
well as IP header compression. As long as were at it,
let's make sure no other settings are static in here
either. Click the DNS tab. There should be no IP's in
those windows and the same if you click the WINS tab.
There will be some other options selected in the DNS and
WINS but we want to make sure there are no Static IP's for
these systems. So at this stage if all is like I said,
you should be able to dial in and do your ipconfig /all
and the gateway should change.
As an aside, you may also want to make sure the "Scope" on
your DHCP has a subnet that allows for growth and open
communications such as a 255.255.0.0 or 255.255.255.0 .
The later being slightly smaller and would then make your
addresses able to go from 192.168.0.0 to 192.168.0.255 and
then stop. I don't mind helping as this really can get
tricky so let me know if this worked.
(e-mail address removed) Good luck! Now I want to make sure
it works!
