Re: DHCP keeping host names unique

"mmccaws2" <mmccaws@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Because of Exchange and it's WINS dependancy is it possible of setting
> the DHCP server to only provide addresses to hosts with unique netbios
> names. WINS is a flat file system that does not understand subdomains.
> So the objective is to ensure that the host names are unique. However
> there are multiple domains. Is there a setting to test the uniqueness
> of the host name?

No. Not unless you can isolate the clients to different
subnets and thereby to different scopes and perhaps even
different DHCP servers.

If the machines are all set to properly use their DNS-domain
name (in the SYSTEM CONTROL panel), which they should
be, then you can have the clients register themselves rather
than the DHCP server do it.

Start with getting the domain name correct on each machine
(preferable AS it joins the domain but do it now if you must.)

Usually the check box that have the name "follow" or "change"
when the domain is changed should be checked to do that.
(So if a machine leaves one domain and joins another the
full name changes automatically whether you remember or not.)

Also note that this is important to get right in the SYSTEM
CONTROL panel (and that the NIC suffixes settings are not
nearly as critical or useful on getting this right.)

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