Remote Installation Services / PXE / BOOTP

[J741]

At our office whe have a small Windows 2000 domain.
I just recieved the Small Business Server 2003 evaluation kit.
I set up a machine for the new Server evaluation, and installed it as a "Test-Domain". It is physically attached to the main network HUB, so I installed a second NIC and bound the DHCP services only to the second NIC so that it does not interfere with the DHCP on the main server.
On this server I installed the Remote Installation Services. If I conenct a PC directly to this server via the second NIC, I can boot using PXE / BOOTP and install my configured operating systems. If I do the same with the PC plugged in to the main HUB, I get a message indicating something to the effect of "no boot file recieved".

Can anyone tell me why?

- James.

 

[j93saturn]

I am thinking it has something to do with DHCP and RIS servers being seperate domains. If you have enough room in the DHCP scope split it between the 2 servers and bind the DHCP scope the NIC on the main hub on your new server.



James
MCP, MCSE

 

[PiMMeL]

Yeah you might have different IP ranges?

Then you have to add the range in either the PXE server part or the TFTP server part I guess.

I did not try this with RIS but with Ghost and 3com boot services and we had a similar problem with VLAN's en different IP Ranges.

Hope it helps a bit.

Pim