Thanks again for the reply Martin, It seems that the network guys had considered this. But, they said that since they already have an ip helper-address assigned to the dhcp server, that if they configured another IP-helper address in the system, that the clients would only look to either the DHCP server OR the OTC server, meaning that both can't be configured at the same time. Does this sound accurate to you? Perhaps I'll ask them about it again. But I was hoping that there were other configurations that we could do, say on the DHCP server, that would simply point the clients to the OTC server. Let me know what you think.
Regards, Brian -----Original Message----- From: Martin Kreiner [mailto:m.krei...@levigo.de] Sent: Monday, May 03, 2010 7:10 AM To: openthinclient-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [openthinclient-user] OTC server with clientsin differentsubnets hi brian, as there are no *NIX machines involved you won't hit SUITE-39: good. simply spoken, you have to make sure that the otc server will receive the broadcast DHCP discover packages sent by your thin clients. the otc server basically needs the same switch/ip helper setup as you DHCP server. so what you have to do is: - make sure the otc server gets a persistent IP (via DHCP or static) - add an ip helper-address of your otc server IP to any swich which has already an ip helper-address entry of your DHCP server for detailed informations have a look at page 18 in Intel's "Preboot Execution Environment (PXE) Specification": http://download.intel.com/design/archives/wfm/downloads/pxespec.pdf cheers, martin Clarke, Brian schrieb: > Hi Martin > > The OTC server is running on windows 2003 server R2. I have it installed on a virtual machine on vmware workstation 6.x. Like it said, it worked fine when it was on the same subnet as the Thin clients. But it doesn't work at all when on a different subnet. The host machine which is hosting the virtual machines is also running windows server 2003 R2. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. > > regards, > > Brian > > ________________________________ > > From: Martin Kreiner [mailto:m.krei...@levigo.de] > Sent: Fri 4/30/2010 5:03 PM > To: openthinclient-user@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [openthinclient-user] OTC server with clients in differentsubnets > > > > hi brian, > > to give you further instructions i need to know the operating system your > openthinclient server is running and if there is any kind of virtualisation > layer in between. > just to make sure you will not hit the following problem: > https://issues.openthinclient.org/otc/browse/SUITE-39 > > > regards, > martin > > Clarke, Brian schrieb: >> Good day, >> >> >> >> I'm a new user of openthinclient and I am unable to get the OTC server >> to work across multiple subnets. >> >> >> >> We have 3 or 4 different subnets (192.168.210, 192.168.212 etc...) for our >> clients. The OTC server is on a another subnet which is strictly for >> servers - 172.30.1. The Dhcp server is on its own subnet also, but >> they have a IP helper configured so that it works for all of the client >> subnets (excluding the 172.30.1 subnet which doesn't use DHCP). If I >> have the OTC server on the same subnet as the client it will work. >> However, if I have it on the server subnet (172.....) it doesn't work at >> all. I have checked the logs on the OTC server and they don't show any >> incoming traffic from the other subnets. What do I need to configure to >> get this working? My knowledge of networking is a bit limited when it >> comes to switches and what have you, so please explain as easily as >> possible. Although I don't manage the switches or DHCP servers, I know >> the guys who do, so I can tell them what to do. Any assistance would be >> much appreciated. >> >> >> >> Regards, >> >> >> >> Brian Clarke ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------ _______________________________________________ The Open Source Thin Client Solution http://openthinclient.org openthinclient-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openthinclient-user ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ The Open Source Thin Client Solution http://openthinclient.org openthinclient-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openthinclient-user
