I have been helping the tech here at school research RIS because we need to get it working. We have a windows 2000 server acting as a domain controller for the lab running win2k server and RIS. The DHCP server is downstairs and these machines (the lab boxen) have never had a problem getting IP addys from the DHCP server.
The network cards are intel cards with PXE, so they will boot to network and they do have DHCP support. When we boot the machines, they time out on the DHCP request, only we're not sure if the DHCP is not working, or if the RIS server is not working properly.
The RIS server has been authorized in active directory on itself, but a howto I read says that you are supposed to log into the root domain on the network and authorize RIS on that machine, but I'm not sure what that is or how to do it. Any help would be much appreciated. Obviously I don't know what I'm doing ... so yeah, any suggestions, help, comments, question or bumps are appreciated. Thanks.
The network cards are intel cards with PXE, so they will boot to network and they do have DHCP support. When we boot the machines, they time out on the DHCP request, only we're not sure if the DHCP is not working, or if the RIS server is not working properly.
The RIS server has been authorized in active directory on itself, but a howto I read says that you are supposed to log into the root domain on the network and authorize RIS on that machine, but I'm not sure what that is or how to do it. Any help would be much appreciated. Obviously I don't know what I'm doing ... so yeah, any suggestions, help, comments, question or bumps are appreciated. Thanks.
