<snip> > If your only serving your LTSP machines you need to make sure you don't have > a range statement in there. If you do it that way the only machines that > will get IP addresses are the ones that match the MAC address of the host > declarations (that would be only the LTSP machines) > > If you do it that way you should be fine. </snip>
Or, is there any reason why your Linux DHCP server can't serve your win clients as well and just turn off DHCP server on the Win server? A Linux dhcp server will serve win clients quite nicely. The reason that I suggest this is that it seems that if you run two servers, then you run the risk that the Win DHCP will respond to your Linux clients when they request. I have read on this list that a Linux DHCP server is usually the first to respond to a request and so it will beat out the win dhcp server....but I don't know that to be fact or if it will always work that way. Your answer might be something like this: 'I don't have control over the windows side of things at my company and the win admin is against switching the dhcp server over to linux'. For the life of me, I can't understand this attitude on the part of win admins. It seems to be so predominant in the Win IT world. MCSE's have become very dependant on GUI system admin tools and the thought of hacking a conf file using vi through a telnet session sends them into convulsions. I can offer this; my company has been using linux dhcp to serve both linux clients and win clients without incident for the last year. I keep a small box with linux and dhcp server around so that I can plug it into the network to take over dhcp in case my LTSP server craps out. Also, you might get a better reception from the win admin by installing webmin and showing him/her how easy it is to configure dhcp through it. The idea of having two separate DHCP servers on the same network seems like it is a step in the wrong direction. With two, now there are two separate servers to maintain if, say for example, you need to change DNS settings for your network. Why use two when one will serve all needs? Anyway, I know I am preaching to the choir here but I really think that going with a linux dhcp server and no win dhcp server is your best option. Sorry for all of the ranting. my .02, rob _______________________________________________________________ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas -- http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.openprojects.net
