Clients cannot find DHCP Server

From: Tony Su (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 03/29/04


Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 11:41:17 -0800

Server Unreachable probably means physical network
connectivity issues... because DHCP works as a broadcast
before anything else happens (even before you can contact
a DC which would require an IP address).

Aside from that, verify your DHCP is "authorized" in the
DHCP server properties.

Tony Su

>-----Original Message-----
>When SBS was first setup, we did not use DHCP. Had an
old
>windows 2000 server providing DHCP and it worked fine.
We
>are now in the process of retiring that server and the
>first service we off loaded was dhcp (to sbs2k3 server).
>
>Now DHCP is totally off line on 2k server and we started
>it on SBS2K3 server. Service start without any error and
>event log shows that it is servicing clients. However,
>when a client tries to renew ip address we get an
>error "DHCP Server unreachable".
>
>Anyone have any ideas?
>
>Thanks in advanced,
>
>Jonathan
>.
>



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