W2K clients lose contact and require static IPs

[rxpete]

Randomly, W2K clients on NT.40 server network will lose ability to automatically obtain IP addresses and must be configured with static IP in order to access network. Anyone hear about this?

 

[ShackDaddy]

You have plenty of unused addresses in your DHCP scope, right? And your DHCP server hasn't been flaking out? At the time that your 2000 clients are losing their addresses, are you able to release and renew the address of an NT4 client?

 

[rxpete]

Plenty of unused addresses in DHCP, yes. Win 98 and NT4 clients do not have this problem at all. Their leases are readily renewed. I can correct this problem on the w2k machines by deleting client for windows and tcp/ip protocal and reinstalling, but that isn't a solution to the problem just a way of fixing what broke. But it does at least tell me that the problem is with the w2k clients and not the server.

 

[michael64]

Do you have the latest service pack installed? I had this problem with laptops at my location running Windows 2K that when connected to a different network had problems obtaining an IP address whenever they came back to the office. There is supposedly a patch for this coming out in SP3 for Windows 2K. I worked around the problem by shortening the IP leases.

 

[rxpete]

Good thinking. I'll give it a try.