Problem with DHCP

Angel Ramon anrr at correu.urv.es
Mon Dec 4 07:31:07 GMT 2000


At 07:47 2/12/00 -0800, you wrote:
>goodday!
>
>i think it is a windoze problem, it seems like if you set new network
>parameters via dhcp you have to do ipconfig /renew_all to windoze
>clients. maybe it is not true in your situation but it certainly is in
>our lab, and me thinks it [windoze dhcp client behavoir] was mentioned
>in 'dhcp handbook'
>
>mabuhay!, barryg
>
>On Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 01:33:54PM +0100, Angel Ramon wrote:
> >
> >          Hello
> >
> >          In my organization we are running samba 2.0.7 for 1 month in
> > Solaris 8 machines, with clients windows 95 and 98.
> >
> >          The problem is that the last week whe changed the 
> configuration of
> > the clients to DHCP. Clients receive their IP address, DNS and WINS 
> servers
> > for DHCP. And, with this change, the clients need some time to see the
> > samba server, and when try to connect automatically to the shares, they
> > can't contact the server, and give errors.
> >          And it's a big problem, since people who work with clients don't
> > know how to connect to samba shares manually, and need help to start
> > working as usually.
> >          We've tried changing to a fix WINS server address, and the 
> problem
> > disappears and all works perfect, but we are interested to work with WINS
> > served by DHCP.
> >
> >          We've tried much things, and nothing works.
> >
> >          Can you help me? We are hopeless!
> >
> >          Thanks!





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