PCs won’t connect to DHCP on 10.4.11 server

[slarsson]

I am running 10.4.11 server on a G5. It’s being used as a file server and DHCP server (~15 mac clients and 3 PC clients). The server has been working well for some time, but it was only a 10 use license. Yesterday we wiped it out and rebuilt using an unlimited license. All the Macs can connect just fine, however, the 3 PCs will not get an IP address. There is no firewall running on the PCs. Renewing the IP in the command line gives a rather generic error about the connection timing out. I have tried static routes, but no change.
We connected an Airport base station to the network, and the one PC with wireless can connect just fine.

Are there any basic settings i’m missing here? Everything works just fine on the Mac side – just can’t see what would be different on the PC, especially since this all worked two days ago…

[gw1500se]

What version of Windows are you using? We have XP-Pro and Home and both have been working for years. Vista is a different matter, we don’t have any. I don’t recall why I have it set, since we don’t use it, but it might be that WINS needs to be set on the DHCP server anyway. I’m guessing the wireless works because it gets its address from the wireless router and not the Mac server.

[slarsson]

Thanks for the replies guys!

MacTroll: I had the logging cranked right up, and it appeared the IP was sent, but no furhter comments.

gw1500se: I use both XP and Vista.

Turns out the XP was a local firewall setting (user had turned on a bunch of stuff that wasn’t needed).

As for the Vista machine: I logged in to the server from my other Mac (which had server admin 10.5.5 on it). I checked the settings, but changed nothing. When i clicked off of the DHCP, it asked if i wanted to save. I reverted and tried it again – same thing. So i hit Save, and voila, all of the sudden the Vista machine connected. No idea what changed, but it’s working.

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