Topic: V5.1.2 and DHCP issues

[Scott Lewis]

I have installed v 5.1.2, and have configured everythink like my setup on v5.0.
Now, I use DHCP to set an IP address for the PC on my home network, as the e-smith server is on 24/7.

Now, I have noticed, everytime I boot up the pc attached to the server, the e-smith server DOES not allocate a ip address. The only way to get it to allocate one is to reboot the server.

Any ideas on what maybe wrong.

Scott

PS> What has happened to the command - samba restart
        It no longer seems to work?

[Debois]

I have this same problem.  IT is very annoying

[Robert Boerner]

Read this thread and look for my response...

http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=3267.msg11033#msg11033

[Scott Lewis]

I looked at the thread but no reel work through's. I also run Win XP Pro on my client PC's.

When I boot that PC, I get the error when I type ipconfig in a command prompt:-

Media State Unallocated (or something similar).

No matter what I do, eg ipconfig /renew or try and repair the connection, no way can I get the DHCP server to allocate me a IP address.

I have tried again with a fresh install no joy, even updated the dhcp with dhcp-3.0-6.i386.rpm but still no joy.

Any ideas,

Scott

[Robert Boerner]

Did you try to release all the IP's, don't do anything else (don't try to renew), and then reboot? Always works for me. What does /var/log/messages look like?

[Scott Lewis]

Yep, tried releasing ip's , and then rebooting. On reboot, no ip allocated.

I checked the var/log messages file, nothing in there to tell me there is an error.

I have reported this to the bugs department, and they have confirmed, it is a bug and they are going to lok into it, as they have also got the error on their pc's.
I will hold on for a few more days to see if it gets fixed, otherwise, I will go back to v5.0.

Scott

[Scott Lewis]

Any news on a  fix for the DHCP issue yet - especially as bugs dept have found the issue with some of their PC's running Win XP.

I have temporary gone back to v5.0.3 that works great.

Scott

[trevorb]

Hi Scott,

if you hear of a fix/update please pass it on. I'm having the same problem (after upgrading from 4.1.2). Have a mix of Win98, Win2k & Linux boxes (some of the Win98 PC's were OK UNTIL I realease their IP's and tried to renew....).

Have reverted to fixed IP's (a real pain) for now.

Trevor B
Scott Lewis wrote:
>
> Any news on a  fix for the DHCP issue yet - especially as
> bugs dept have found the issue with some of their PC's
> running Win XP.
>
> I have temporary gone back to v5.0.3 that works great.
>
> Scott

[Scott Lewis]

The only way I got it to work is to upgrade from v5.0.3 to v5.1.2.  A clean install of 5.1.2 does not work.
 
When you say you upgraded, I agther you missed upgrading to v5.0.3.
 
I would suggest do a backup of e-smith. Install v5.0.3, and then restore the files. Then do an upgrade to v5.1.2. This is the way I did it.
 
Hope this helps.
 
Scott

[trevorb]

To close my issue out....

I removed all of the MASQ custom templates that I had (a full copy & then just changed 1 to fix a VPN issue - which is fixed in v5 anyway), and did:

/sbin/e-smith/signal-event remoteaccess-update

and for good measure

/sbin/e-smith/signal-event post-upgrade

All is working fine now (including my VPN into work).

Trevor B