Topic: E-Smith and NT4

[Mike Stoddart]

I have E-Smith running nice and smoothly serving my Win98 client PC. But when I installed NT4 onto the client instead, I get an service warning in the event log every time I boot NT.

The warning is with DHCP, which I'm using on the server:


Description:
DHCP received an unknown option 028 of length 004. The raw option data is given below.

Data: (words)
0000: ff96a8c0

Data: (bytes)
0000: c0 a8 96 ff               À¨?ÿ  

Any ideas?

Thanks

[Gerald Jansen]

We support both NT and e-smith servers. They both work great with Windows 95/98 workstations. However, you must be certain that you have only ONE dhcp server.  We also have Windows 2000 Professional workstations using e-smith as a server. Once again without any problems. Windows 2000 thinks that e-smith is an NT server. I hope this helps in some way.

[Charlie Brady]

Mike Stoddart wrote:

> I have E-Smith running nice and smoothly serving my Win98
> client PC. But when I installed NT4 onto the client instead, I
> get an service warning in the event log every time I boot NT.
>
> The warning is with DHCP, which I'm using on the server:
>
> Description: DHCP received an unknown option 028 of length 004.
> The raw option data is given below.
>
> Data: (words) 0000: ff96a8c0
>
> Data: (bytes) 0000: c0 a8 96 ff               À¨?ÿ
>
> Any ideas?

I'm sure that you can ignore this. I don't have my RFCs handy, so I don't know what option "028" is (or whether that is in hex or decimal - it's obviously not octal though) but can tell you that DHCP supports something called "vendor extensions" - so there is nothing wrong with DHCP options being included that particular clients do not understand.

Charlie