Microsoft DHCP and Client Macintosh

[rosario]

Hi,
I have a serveur Microsoft DHCP and lease the IP to client 9x/2000/nt/2k/xp
but the clients macintosh with operating system OS 9,2 and 10,3 obtains the
APIPA. Are necessary the services macintosh install to you on the DHCP? Or
it needs of qualcos' other?

Thanks

 

[William M. Smith]

Hi,
I have a serveur Microsoft DHCP and lease the IP to client 9x/2000/nt/2k/xp
but the clients macintosh with operating system OS 9,2 and 10,3 obtains the
APIPA. Are necessary the services macintosh install to you on the DHCP? Or
it needs of qualcos' other?

Your Macs can acquire IP addresses via DHCP just as a Windows client does.
You do not need to install any of the Mac services for this to work.

I don't know of anything in DHCP you can configure to exclude Mac clients,
so my guess is that the Mac clients may not be able to connect to the DHCP
server. This may be because they're on a network segment separated by a
router or something similar. To test this, hardcode the TCP/IP information
on one of the Macs (including IP address, subnet, router, DNS addresses and
domain suffix). If the Mac still doesn't connect to network resources such
as your Internet connection, then something is incorrectly configured either
on your Macs or between your Macs and the server.

Hope this helps! bill