On Fri, 2004-08-13 at 00:41, Brian Parish wrote: > On Fri, 2004-08-13 at 00:31, Stephen K�hn wrote: > > Ok - now I know I must be doing something wrong here folks; but let's > > start out from the beginning. > > > > I constantly have customer computers in here, and generally, when I slap > > them on the network, I give them a static IP address along with gateway > > and the whole nine yards. > > > > Today I decided I was exceptionally lazy and wanted to setup the DHCP > > server via the Mandrake Control Centre. Ok - no worries - accepted all > > the defaults and the likes. But it ain't seeming to work. Wassup? > > > > I have a customer machine here - rebooted even - tried to renew the IP, > > but getting nothing - NADA - WTF am I doing wrong - or do I need to > > spend more than five minutes on this? > > > > Mind you, I'm not having a whinge because of it, but I thought it should > > work right away and first off...(and I don't want to reboot) > > > > stephen kuhn - proprietor > > If your /etc/dhcpd.conf file has valid addresses in it and > > service dhcpd status > > shows dhcpd as running, that's about it. Unless you have a firewall in > between you and the dhcp server or something. > > > cheers > Brian
I know it's running; already been through that with the IRC guys; yeah, it's running, restarted heaps of times already. The issue is that the client machine (a customer's machine) doesn't seem to want to pick up the IP; I can set it up with static and it's right to go, but when I set it to DHCP it doesn't suck and IP from the pool...banging head now. stephen kuhn - proprietor __________________________________________________________________ illawarra computer services :: a kuhn media australia venture http://kma.0catch.com :: mobile 0410.728.389 Serving Sydney, The Illawarra, South Coast and Rural NSW __________________________________________________________________ * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents __________________________________________________________________ Mandrake GNU/Linux 10.0 OE/Kernel 2.6.3-7/ No Viruses here. We are so fond of each other because our ailments are the same. -- Jonathon Swift
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