DHCP and Domain suffix search order

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We've got a multiple domain setup where we have a root domain (lets say
fizi.ca with DC's) and two sub-domains for faculty and students (lets say
students.fizi.ca and faculty.fizi.ca both with DC's).

We're working on implementing DNS Scavenging and cleaning up our mess of a
DNS server. Our DHCP server and DNS servers are located in the 'fizi.ca'
domain as well.

When we setup new faculty desktops we create them under 'faculty.fizi.ca'
and when we setup student lab desktops we create them under
'students.fizi.ca' and so those computers A records are placed in the
appropriate domain. When a user comes to our campus and connects to our
wireless or plugs into the wall they will have their A records created under
'fizi.ca'.

I just altered our DHCP Scopes for wireless and setup a new subdomain (no
DC's) called public.fizi.ca. New computers connecting to our wireless are now
placing their A Records into 'public.fizi.ca' which is exactly what we want.
The problem we're having is we put servers related to students under
'students.fizi.ca' and one's for staff under 'faculty.fizi.ca'. Some of those
servers can't be resolved when connected to wireless now if you type in their
name computer name. As an example we have a print server for students with a
FQDN of 'printserver.students.fizi.ca'. When I connect to wireless and
attempt to ping or access '\\printserver' it fails to resolve. If I type in
the FQDN everything is happy.

I configured option 134 "Hostname resolution order" to "0x2 hosts->dns" and
configured option 135 "Domain suffix search order" with "fizi.ca,
students.fizi.ca and faculty.fizi.ca". Shouldn't this solve the problem of
'printserver' not being resovable? Or have I missed a step?
.

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