RIS not responding to client request

[Nathan Guidry]

First question - For RIS to work, does DHCP have to be on the same server as
RIS, or will any DHCP server on the network work? Second - When I put the
RIS boot disk in, I keep getting an error of "No reply from a server.",
even though I have an authorized DHCP server on the same box. Has anyone
run across this problem.

 

[Nathan Guidry]

UPDATE: Ok, I right clicked on the DHCP scope and brought up statistics,
then booted the client machine with the boot disk and kept click refresh to
see if there was a change in the denial or acknowledge stats. Since I only
put two available addresses in the scope 2/2, I noticed that when the client
machine was booting up, it changed to 1/2 and than a while later it changed
back to 2/2. It seems that the client is getting an address and then
dropping it. I have the lease set to 8 days, so I'm sure that's not the
problem. Any help is greatly appreciated.

P.S - This is on a Windows 2003 server.

 

[Nathan Guidry]

Here is the error I'm getting from Event Viewer:
The Remore Installation service encountered an error while attempting to
connect to the directory service via the global catalog.

 

[NIC Student]

Hi Nathan,

I don't know if you have your answer yet, but here goes:

First question - For RIS to work, does DHCP have to be on the same server as
RIS, or will any DHCP server on the network work?
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Ris can be on a DC, a DHCP server, or just a member server that is
authorized.

Second - When I put the RIS boot disk in, I keep getting an error of "No
reply from a server.", even though I have an authorized DHCP server on the
same box. Has anyone run across this problem.
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Yes, this is a common problem with new installations. You must check the
box that says "respond to client requests" and clear the box about "do not
respond to unknown clients" unless you have prestaged your clients.

Do a Start>Run>"RISETUP -check" (without quotes, click OK).

Are your other clients getting ip leases from dhcp?

Is the RIS client on the same subnet as the RIS server?

What brand of nic is on the client?

Are you sure the ip addresses available in the dhcp scope are not already in
use on the network?

Watch the client very closly to see the exact message at failure.

Can you hit F12 to start the RIS without using the boot floppy?

Here is the error I'm getting from Event Viewer:
The Remore Installation service encountered an error while attempting to
connect to the directory service via the global catalog.

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This sounds like a little deeper problem.

I found this message which may help:

**Begin of message from Oct/4/03
The casuse of your issue is These error messages are caused by removing NTFS
permissions for the System account or the Administrators group on the Image
folders.

To resolve your issue add NTFS permissions for the System account or the
Administrators group to the Templates folder and files located at:

\\<Servername>\REMINST\Setup\<Language>\Images\<Imagename>\I386\Template

If you want to control which users can install certain images, remove the
Everyone group permissions from the specific Image.sif file in the Templates
folder, and then apply specific group or user permissions to the .sif file
while keeping the Administrators group or System account intact.

For additional information you can refer to Q252389 Error Message: TFTP
Failed. E Not Found

http://support.microsoft.com/?id=252389

**End of message


--
Scott Baldridge
Windows Server MVP, MCSE




"Nathan Guidry"