Manny

It would be more helpful if you can tell us about how your network is
configured. Perhaps DHCP helper issue? Are all the machines in single subnet?
Is your DHCP server working properly? Unbind IPV6 on your NIC if you are not
using it. I am running Vista with Win2k DHCP server with no issue. Also try
taking one of the "working" machine, release it's IP, clear the entry fron
DHCP server, connect to same connection and see if it's getting the IP.

"David Dickinson" 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
>
>
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