Re: DHCP Problem with WIndows XP clients

From: LucM (lucm_at_iqato.moc)
Date: 06/24/04 

Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 23:05:33 -0400

Gail Dimock wrote:

>>DHCP with Windows XP is painful. The whole release/renew thing is
>>behaving badly.
>>
>>You client might try to right-click the connection properties in Windows
>>and select "Repair".
>>
>>As for the DNS I often noticed the issue with XP workstations using
>>DHCP. Most of the time I ended up setting the DNS manually in logon scripts.
>
>
> Curouser and curiouser...
> When I set up the Windows clients without DHCP, configuring the network
> manually it does the same things....
>
> I can ping an address. I cannot open a web page from a server I can ping.
> I cannot collect mail from the mailserver on the LAN. I am at head
> banging stage. Do I need to reinstall Windows on the client machines?
>
> Windows clients are being scanned for viruses, but so far...
>
> Anyone have any suggestions?

Do you actually ping the server by its name (not IP) on the Windows
machines? If so, do you get an answer coming from the good IP?

If you run nslookup with the name of the server, do you get the good IP?

Otherwise, this might be a hosts file issue, which could be caused by
adware/spyware.
Have a look in the file c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts and see if
there are unusual entries (other than localhost).

What happens if you type the server IP in Internet Explorer (instead of
the hostname)? Do you get something? Otherwise check the proxy settings
in the internet connection properties. 

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