DHCP probelm on Win2K

[Bluga]

Scenario:

I've succesful installed a clean copy of Active Directory + DNS + DHCP and set my machine as Domain controller. I authorized DHCP service without any problem and my network was fine. However, after i Reboot my server, my DHCP service is gone. The error was "DHCP Server is not running on the target computer".........So i deleted DHCP and reinstalled again, but got the same error again. Any ideas?

 

[obenton]

Sounds like the server is thinking another computer has been set up as domain controller.

 

[celeritas]

What does your event log say? You can always assign IPs, etc. manually. e.g., 192.168.0.1 IP/255.255.255.0 SM/blank gateway (or one provided by ISP) for server, and 192.168.0.2, .3, etc./255.255.255.0/192.168.0.1 for clients. Be sure to enable sharing on the WAN device. I'm not sure if "dial on demand" will work with DHCP off -- but it's worth checking into.

I prefer static IPs to DHCP -- you set 'em and forget 'em. Plus, with DHCP I noticed that my PCs took a little longer to boot up, would lose their IPs if the server was reset (forcing renews/reboots), and sometimes couldn't get numbers at all because of the security software (blackice/atguard) I had installed.