wetelectric Posted February 17, 2009 Share Posted February 17, 2009 I know nothing about Windows admin, so I need a little bit of help on this. Imagine a network if you will, with windows 2003 small business server as the domain controller, exchange and DHCP box to a number of windows clients. Everything works fine (honest), but when another device such as a wireless router is plugged in to the network, Windows 2003 server switches off it's DHCP server and defers to said device. Is there anyway to stop this mental behaviour, I mean feature? i.e keep the main server as the main DHCP server. Cheers guys Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted February 17, 2009 Share Posted February 17, 2009 I know nothing about Windows admin, so I need a little bit of help on this. Imagine a network if you will, with windows 2003 small business server as the domain controller, exchange and DHCP box to a number of windows clients. Everything works fine (honest), but when another device such as a wireless router is plugged in to the network, Windows 2003 server switches off it's DHCP server and defers to said device. Is there anyway to stop this mental behaviour, I mean feature? i.e keep the main server as the main DHCP server. Cheers guys That is a ridiculous feature. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaser48 Posted February 17, 2009 Share Posted February 17, 2009 did you disable the AP dhcp server or are you looking for why server 2003 releases the DHCP role? Does the server 2003 grab a ip from the router? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted February 17, 2009 Share Posted February 17, 2009 You need to set your Master Browser to true (HKLM\System\CCS\Services\Browser\Parameters; IsDomainMaster should be set to true). Also, how is the router connected to the server? You could try unbinding the DHCP service from NIC which connects to the router. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wetelectric Posted February 18, 2009 Author Share Posted February 18, 2009 Really looking to fix the problem of win 2003 giving up the dhcp role. Turning of dhcp on each device (that you know of!) that happens to connect to your network is not a good plan :) I will look into the Master Browser reg fix thing. Thanks VaKo. I'll suggest it to our windows dude. Good to see, people progress from tinkers to professionals on here :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
h3%5kr3w Posted February 19, 2009 Share Posted February 19, 2009 umm... what I would do is assign the router a static IP on the wan side, and set the other side on a different subnet, OR what I would really do is just not use a router, just a smart switch. OR I would just turn off DHCP on the router. That would probably be a good thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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