I get no IP from Windows 2000 server when trying to connect an XP box

[myOtherHandle]

I am a programmer and don't really have too much expertise with windows servers and i'm stuck trying to set up a new client at the office.

The server is a small business server running Microsoft Windows Server 2000 using Active Directory.

The other clients are set up to receive IP automatically, so I do the same on this new client. I try to connect to the domain but I get an error saying the computer cannot find a DNS. The network icon in the tray has a question mark over it, I assume this is because the computer is getting no IP from the server.

So I figured that this is a security setting and that I have to add the computer name to the computer list on the server, nope, that didn't work either. So I try to use the same computer name as the old one (the one i'm replacing), but no, still not getting an IP from the server.

What am I missing here?

 

[Helenp1983]

In Network Connections, right click on Local area connection, porperties,select internet protocol, properties.

under "use the following dns server address" put the ip address on your domain controller. it may help.

 

[Helenp1983]

Some times when i rename my computers and make them a memeber of the domain, i get DNS lookup unavailible.

So i make it a member of the workgroup "test" (disjioning it from the domain) reboot then add it back to the domain, works ok.

 

[myOtherHandle]

But isn't the computer suppose to get a leased IP from the servers DHCP before all this happens?

Or is the leased IP given AFTER the computer is a member of the domain?

I don't understand how the other computers work then since they have both IP and DNS checked to receive automatically...

To me it feels more like a security setting on the server where no new computers may "hook up" to the network without being cleared on the server first. I have no clue about this though, just a wild guess from a programmer

 

[wcburton]

Look at one of the computers that is working. Open DOS prompt and run "ipconfig /all". One of the items returned will be the address of the DHCP server. It would either be the address of the server or a router.

Now that you know where the DHCP service is, go there and check the settings. Are all the addresses assigned? You probably need to increase the pool. Are the addresses assigned by reservations? You will need to create a reservation for the new PC. You will need the MAC address of the NIC, also found in the above ipconfig.