On Tue, 5 Jun 2007 01:08:11 -0600, "David Dickinson"
<eveningstar@mvps-diespammerdie.org> wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I have a peer-to-peer network with a problem between two machines:
>
>- Win2K Server with ISA Server 2004, DNS, and DHCP
>- Vista Business
>
>If I tell Vista to get its address via DHCP, it fails, assigning instead an
>automatic private IP. But If I give it a static IPv4 (there's no IPv6 for
>Win2K except MS's antique experimental version), it finds the network and
>everything works great. It even registers it's name in DNS.
>
>The only error messages appear on the Vista machine when it can't get an
>address via DHCP (the usual "an automatic IP address was assigned).
>
>Other machines with other OS's get their addresses from the server via DHCP
>just fine, including machines that come in from outside VPN connections.
>
>What am I missing?
>
>David Dickinson
>eveningstar at die-spammer-die dash mvps dot org
David,
Windows Vista, by default, uses DHCP Broadcast. Will your DHCP server handle
Broadcast?
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2006/12/windows-xp-and-vista-on-lan-together.html>
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2006/1...-together.html
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Cheers,
Chuck, MS-MVP [Windows - Networking]
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/
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