edie209 Posted October 5, 2006 Posted October 5, 2006 I going to place this here as I have no idea where it should go. Over the summer I have been forced to move from windows dhcp to linux dhcp (we have had a couple citrix suites installed). This as left me with a problem I can't get RIS to work with the Linux dhcp, it worked at first with no problems, but as time has gone on less and less clients are getting an ip address from dhcp. Has anyone got this working if so how?
Geoff Posted October 5, 2006 Posted October 5, 2006 See this guide: http://oss.netfarm.it/guides/pxe.php
edie209 Posted October 5, 2006 Author Posted October 5, 2006 Geoff, thanks for replying, I don't think this is what I'm looking for however. I want to retain Windows 2003 RIS and be able to use a linux dhcp server.
djm968 Posted October 5, 2006 Posted October 5, 2006 Have you authorised the DHCP server in Active Directory?
djm968 Posted October 5, 2006 Posted October 5, 2006 This might also help. http://www-w2k.cs.berkeley.edu/admin/docs/dhcp.htm
Geoff Posted October 5, 2006 Posted October 5, 2006 Geoff, thanks for replying, I don't think this is what I'm looking for however. I want to retain Windows 2003 RIS and be able to use a linux dhcp server. Re-read the section titled 'Windows RIS installation from the net' in the article I linked. Also this secondary article expands on that: http://oss.netfarm.it/guides/ris-linux.php Which is linked from the aforementioned section of the article. Have you authorised the DHCP server in Active Directory? He can't. AD doesn't understand linux dhcp servers.
djm968 Posted October 5, 2006 Posted October 5, 2006 You can, simple load the adminpak and run the DHCP utility to authorize your server. DHCP doesn't need to be on an MS server for this. RIS can respond because the global catalog says it's authorised to startnthe services. I've been running RIS on a variety servers ISC DHCP and BIND running on Linux and that's all I've ever had to do.
edie209 Posted October 5, 2006 Author Posted October 5, 2006 You can, simple load the adminpak and run the DHCP utility to authorize your server. DHCP doesn't need to be on an MS server for this. I tried this but when I add the linux dhcp server (using its ip address) it finds the server and adds it to the consul but it is not connected, if I click on the + i then get the egg timer then a white x on a red background. Have I done something wrong?
djm968 Posted October 5, 2006 Posted October 5, 2006 No you have not really sorry my Mistake, what I should have said is have you authorised the RIS server in Active Directory again after the DHCP server change. You may need to run the RIS installtion Services setup again, this will check all is ok.
edie209 Posted October 5, 2006 Author Posted October 5, 2006 I have re-run the RIS installtion Services setup and it reports that dhcp has been authorised but clients are still unable to pick up an ip to boot into RIS
djm968 Posted October 5, 2006 Posted October 5, 2006 Try stopping and restarting the RIS service. If this fails re-boot the server and if that fails I'am off to a place nice and warm.
edie209 Posted October 6, 2006 Author Posted October 6, 2006 mmm that warm place is really appealing as winter draws in (OZ) . I have uninstalled RIS today and then completly re-installed it, everything went fine, and I recieved no error and DHCP was authorised, but when I went to a client pc it still fails to get an ip address
edie209 Posted October 10, 2006 Author Posted October 10, 2006 I got it working and just incase anyone else has the same problem here is the fix. The RIS server can only have ONE NIC and ONE IP address. once I changed this everthing worked straight away \\:D/
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