Alrighty, I have a RedHat 8.0 server running samba and dhcp for internal use only. Our compay has purchased a few new computers running XP Home. Our DHCP is used for our guests computers and our roaming laptops. All desktops use static IP addresses.

The static IP address for one of the XP Home machines is 192.168.1.198. When I run IPCONFIG is says that that is the IP address of that computer. However, when I look at the leases file for DHCP this XP Home machine shows up as having a DHCP lease using IP address 192.168.1.165.

I have gone into the services.msc utility and disabled "DHCP client" for XP and it still accepts a lease.

Any help would be great.

Sounds like a question for a MS forum to me. I dunno!

Chris

Maybe, but I figure a linux admin could answer this better than an XP user, and a Windows admin wouldn't know Jack about linux DHCP. Don't you agree?

First of all I would release all IPconfigs on the XP machine. Then reboot in the Linux Network. THis is a M$ problem you are also dealling with M$ be hostile towards Linux- my guess that it maybe looking for that NT Server some where- were these brand new or did they just come to from somewhere else. Check and make sure you r not pointing to a foriegn Gateway some where in XP as well. As for Home that is useless in a domain enviorment you can't join one only in PRO.

Now you know why I hate M$ they make things so easy to wate entire day trying to figure out crap.

The computers were brand new with fresh installs of XP Home. I'm with you 100% on the XP Home being useless on a network, but I'm gonna need to deal with this atleast for the short term. I don't have an NT server here at work. 192.168.1.165 is the first address in the DHCP pool I have set aside.

You know, I've had another weird DHCP experience with Win98 and multiplayer games. In windows everything works great, but in games when I try to join a multiplayer game it says I don't have an IP address assigned. When I assign a static address it's fine.

Maybe I'm a DHCP-dropout, but I've used the most basic of DHCP conf files before and it ran flawlessly. I'm running dhcp3.0pl1-26 does anyone know if any problem like this with this version?

you have to disable it on the xp machine as well as the server.

G,
Working with HOME is HELL on earth and should have never have been released.
My thinking is that because Home is unfriendly towards domains ( I know I spent an entire shift trying to get it to work for a Dr.) that this maybe your problem.
The only other suggestion I can make is take one and see if you assign it a static address- for testing purposes. See if this helps.
Other wise dowload Srvs pack1 this may help. Becareful with other patches simply because M$ has put out a lot of bad ones latley.(Nothing new with them)

Other wise take computer with Home on and drop it from the top floor and watch Windows fly.
Man this one is different that is for sure.
Good Luck
ikw38