Re: NT 4.0 DHCP & Windows 2003 DHCP

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Are the domains separated by a router? If not then you have no
way of telling which computers to use the W2k3 DHCP server
instead of the NT 4.0 DHCP server and vice versa. The clients
send out a DHCP discovery packet on the hardware level to
find a DHCP server and obtain an address. With two DHCP
servers on the same segment you have no way of forcing a
paticular machine to use a paticular DHCP server.

"SCC" <stoneblade@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:
We have a client who is in the process of upgrading from their NT servers
to Windows 2003. They want migrate everything together before they remove
the NT4 servers.

They are in a trust domain between servers. Now, they have a DHCP scope on
the NT4 server and a DHCP scope on the Windows 2003 server.. Scopes do not
interfere with each other address wise, however, it seems that when one of
the DHCP servers are activated, it automatcially deactivates the other
DHCP server, vice versa.

Has anyone experienced this or may know what could be causing it? Thanks
in advance.



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