[RESOLVED] Help with network settings

[MrNorth]

Hi!

I need some help with a SBS 2008 network running windows 7 clients.

The problem is that none of the clients get any IP address when they are connected to the network and windows 7 is installed. I have configured dns and DHCP but it seems like nothing is happening. I ahve tried to set the ip to the dns manually on the clients but still they have no ip address and can't access the serverthrough ping.

On dhcp -> server options I have set

003
006
015
044


Have I missed any settings that tell the client how to configure its network automatically?

Everything else is setup as "standard".

One computer howerver got an ip address, but all others have failed. Exactly the same procedure for all.

What have I missed? How can I troubleshoot?

/Henrik

[MrNorth]

Hi!

Getting desperate here, I have checked the following:

DHCP Server is running but only one PC is displayed in the list of leased IP (the one that we installed and joined to domain without problems)

DNS service is up and running, only two computers here, the SBS and the new pc that we joined.

WHat happens with the other PCs is that they don't get any IP, I tried to disable and enable the network adapter. THey don't get any internet access, there is a yellow exclamation mark by the network icon. I can ping the SBS server but it looks like it prints the mac address and not the ip when it writes "reply from xxxxxxxx". It certainly doesn't write the dns name as it should.


Update: I brought my girlfriends laptop to the office, plugged it in and voila, it got internet access and IP without problems. Didn't have to do anything, just plugged it in and it worked. Checking ipconfig /all and everything looked good. Of course its not joined to the domain, but everything else is working. What is going on?? I think I can notice a pattern here... older computers don't get any IP but newer seem to work ok...

I am 100 % sure I have missed some setting when I configured DNS or DHCP, but what? I assume that when you plug in a PC that is not member of the domain, you need to set the "server options" under DHCP so that it know the DNS etc (003, 006, 015 and 044). I don't know what WINS is or if I need it. Is there any setting here that I have missed you think?

Please help, this seems like networking 101 And it should work out of the box. Give me things to try out, troubleshoot or things to check and I will happily do it. So far we only have 2 computers working at the office out of 14.


The two computers that work have windows XP and WIndows 7. SO the OS doesn't seem to matter.

Oh, network topology is extremly simple

192.168.1.2 SBS server which has DHCP and DNS and DC, freshly installed and using default settings
192.168.1.1 Default gateway
192.168.1.100-254 DHCP range for clients
and 14 clients

Thats it.

kind regards
Henrik

[MrNorth]

Problem seems to have been solved by itself. Came back this morning and restarted the computers with problem, now they get an IP address...

wierd

/Henrik