On Tuesday 27 January 2009 19:58:17 James D. Parra wrote:
Thanks again, David, but I had previously tried all of those to no avail. I think there is something dhcp server side that Vista is expecting. There is no firewall on the server and all other workstations get IP addresses.
I seem to recall having an issue with windows once, that if it felt a certain IP address belonged to it, where the dhcp server disagreed, windows would only request that address, disregard the NAK, and never send a DISCOVER request. If my memory isn't deceiving me here, the solution would then be to force it to release the address (something like ipconfig /release I believe, but I am very much not a windows user) ~~~~~~~~~~~ So this is interesting. I copied the dhcpd.conf file to a Suse 10.0 box and started the server and behold, the Vista boxes could now get and IP address (and so could a Panasonic printer which could also not get an IP address from a dhcp server running on Suse 11). I don't know much about the protocol, but I think the problem may lie with the dhcpd6 on 11. That is what was missing from the Fedora box & the Suse 10.0 box. Is that possible? And if so, can I disable the IP6/dhcp6 part of the dhcp server running on Suse 11? Thanks again, James -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org