Static ip is conflicting in a dhcp environment
 

I am in a production environment where ip addresses are configured in dchp but when I changes the ip address (public or private ip) of any one system then after restarting the network service it gives the message that the ip is used by any other host in the network.

Any solution will be helpfull

Thanks

Look at the network or subnet size via ip/subnet mask. Look at DHCP server to determine if any IP addresses in the subnet are not configured to be provided by DHCP. You must use a static IP outside of the DHCP range.

There are 2 possible solns, use an IP addr outside the DHCP range OR assign the static-ip inside the DHCP cfg. See Examples 20.4, 20.5 here http://www.linuxtopia.org/online_boo...ng-server.html. NB: the example titles are UNDERNEATH the associated cfg code.

I am not able to set any ip address to the ethernet interface.Also I want to configure samba but without the static ip address I cannot configure samba.

Is there any solution to configure samba without static ip address.

Thanks

Setup wins.
Set dhcp leases so each machine always gets the same IP.

I am usually thinking that if a system complains of some duplicate IP then there is one. Someone running some sort of network detection?