On Wed, 2006-10-04 at 09:38 -0400, sinox wrote: --snip-- > A - Could I have another DHCP + Samba on another machine which not > affect the main server?
If you have more than one DHCP server on the same network it will cause problems for you. > C - How a booting machine knows which server to use for DHCP? It doesn't. A machine booting up would get a DHCP lease from whichever DHCP server responds first. One thing to note here is that the only reason you would need to set up your own DHCP server would be if you were using PXE boot for the clients. In that case, you would need to set up some specific options on the DHCP sever. However, if you're willing to just use boot CD's, you can leave the rest of the network as-is and not have any problems. If you really want to use PXE boot you can probably just talk to the company that's managing the DHCP server and tell them which options you need added. I'm sure they'd have no problem doing that for you. Once that's done you can set up a TFTP server on a machine that you control and a Samba share somewhere (could be on a windows box) and you'd be all set. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ unattended-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
