If a workgroup DHCP detects a domain DHCP server on the network, the
workgroup server assumes itself to be unauthorized and will not service DHCP
requests - See:
http://download.microsoft.com/downlo...925a4/dhcp.doc
Try editing the registry;
Set the following registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\DHCPServer\Parameters
Value name: DisableRogueDetection
Data type: REG_DWORD Value data: 1
Doug Sherman
MCSE Win2k/NT4.0, MCSA, MCP+I, MVP
"Paul Landregan" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> We have an established enterprise forest containing many domains. Each
> domain is on a separate subnet, connected together via routers into a
> central management domain/subnet.
> eg. server1.class1.domain.com server1.class2.domain.com etc etc.
>
> Each classroom is on a separate subnet 172.20.x.0 /24, with a single IP
> uplinking to higher formations of 172.20.1.x (Where x is the same in both
> addresses).
> Each classroom has its own DHCP server serving the clients on that subnet.
> This works perfectly. We now wish to add in 6 more classrooms in the same
> fashion, however instead of being part of the AD forest, they are required
> to be in a workgroups.
>
> All went fine till we tried to configure the DHCP server to issue out
> addresses. It recognises there is a DHCP serving the higher formation
> 172.20.1.100-199 above the fixed uplink IP's. So will not start. The error
> ID is 1052.
>
> What could be causing this?
> Is it the fact the DHCP server in the root subnet/domain is authorised as
> are all the existing classrooms, but the new ones are not authorised, as
the
> server is part of a workgroup not the existing forest.
>
> How can I get the new DHCP servers to start and issue addresses to their
> respective classes.
>
>