| Subject | : | DHCP / DNS question... |
| Author | : | warpcafe warpcafe@yahoo.de |
| Date | : | 31 May, 2004 on 14:09 |
| Hi folks, we're running a DSL router with integrated modem (Zyxel) at our office. It has an integrated DHCP server and assigns IP numbers from the defined pool to the workstations. The problem now is, that we're having trouble to access shares on DHCP-assigned machines by using the machine NAMES. Question: TIA |
| Subject | : | Re:DHCP / DNS question... |
| Author | : | devnul |
| Date | : | 31 May, 2004 on 15:25 |
| IMHO best solution would be to limit DHCP range (e.g. use from 192.168.0.100 -192.168.0.254 instead the whole range starting from 192.168.0.1) then assing to every fixed workstation a unique IP-Adress out of the excluded range (don't forget to add DNS Servers and default gateway too). The you can use the hosts list and notebooks( which may be used in different lan's or from visitors who are allowed to attach their notebooks to your lan/internet access) get an IP adress from DHCP. Your boot time on Worksations benefits too and using fixed address is quite often in mixed environments (e.g. with printservers, printers with own networkcard and RIP's - e.g. the fiery's, mac's, win, other os ...) the first choice to avoid troubles. Using DDNS is definitely a stupid idea, or do you want to establish everytime you connect to a machine inside you LAN a WAN connection first ? As Zyxel has excellent documentation (several hundred pages |
| Subject | : | Re:DHCP / DNS question... |
| Author | : | warpcafe warpcafe@yahoo.de |
| Date | : | 31 May, 2004 on 21:50 |
Thanks - that's a good idea (we already thought of that as a workaround-option). But... TIA |
| Subject | : | Re:DHCP / DNS question... |
| Author | : | devnul |
| Date | : | 31 May, 2004 on 22:44 |
| How many Workstations do you have ? Setting up a DNS Server might be (unless you are using primarily W2K clients, which always wan't to connect to an DNS Server during boot and so establish a WAN connection. No, no simple solution available) like shooting with canons on sparrots. And as I've told you, using DHCP in mixed environments may be the cause of weird problems. As using fixed IP-Adresses for not walking around workstations/network-printers/network-devices has no drawback I can't see any reason why not to take it's advantages. |
| Subject | : | Re:DHCP / DNS question... |
| Author | : | Trident |
| Date | : | 01 Jun, 2004 on 05:51 |
| I just setup a wireless network in my home, using a USRobotics routher with DHCP.. after running into the same problems you discribed, I talked to one of the guys on the os/2 chat room.. here's what I did.. after setting up the MPTS, I then setup the TCP config I just clicked on DHCP.. nothing else was necassary... on the server side just make sure that you IP numbers are in the network ie: 192.168..xxx.xxx... ..or what ever set your using. Best |
| Subject | : | Re:DHCP / DNS question... |
| Author | : | warpcafe warpcafe@yahoo.de |
| Date | : | 01 Jun, 2004 on 10:34 |
Yes, but... "just clicking DHCP in the tcp config" is how to set up the DHCP client on the workstation... that's not the question... how does your network know the ip of a workstation that you access by name? Is that resolved without the need for (internet-based) DNS? Then maybe the function set of your router differs from that of our ZyXel. Anyway thanks! Thomas |
| Subject | : | Re:DHCP / DNS question... |
| Author | : | warpcafe warpcafe@yahoo.de |
| Date | : | 01 Jun, 2004 on 10:47 |
Devnul, First: Thanks a lot for your help! Greetings |
| Subject | : | Re:DHCP / DNS question... |
| Author | : | Roland junker@despamhydrografix.com |
| Date | : | 01 Jun, 2004 on 18:23 |
| May be you have to setup a DNS server in your environment. In our office we use the DHCP/DNS features of Warp Server for eBusiness, but I think the TCPIP software for DHCP/DNS is solitary available. You can consult this redbook which was very helpful to me: http://publib-b.boulder.ibm.com/Redbooks.nsf/RedbookAbstracts/sg245280.html?Open In my opinion the DNS server is a bit slow but ist works. |