AboutTim Fenner Expertise Currently, my focus has been on the management of a Microsoft Windows, Exchange and Office deployment (with the majority of all servers running within an ESX Infrastructure 3 virtual environment). Along with supporting the previously listed solutions/products, I also have administration experience with an array of other technologies, such as backup solutions, SANs, anti-virus products, wired and wireless networking, mobile devices, VPNs, IPS, printing and much, much more...
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Expert: Tim Fenner Date: 7/1/2008 Subject: dhcp in workgroup
Question hi
i am trying to deploy a dhcp server on our server with 2003 windows OS.this server is part of a workgroup and i dont have active directory.after i configure it and define all the scopes and disable dhcp function of the linksys router, it wont work and no computer is allocated an address for it ,also the dhcp rule in the server is indicating that it is active.
please i need ur help.
Answer Hello Hussein,
the first thing I would check is to see if their are any event logs and troubleshoot accordingly.
Can you client PCs ping the server (using the PING utility) by its IP address? If not, then you have IP connection or routing issues.
Is there a firewall either on server or between the server and the rest of the dhcp clients? If so, it could be blocking DHCP requests.
The following article shows how to setup dhcp in a workgroup. It has links at the bottom for troubleshooting.
