[635] in resnet
Re: Administration in a post-XP world
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matt Shelton)
Thu Jan 10 13:07:49 2002
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Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 12:56:56 -0500
Reply-To: Matt Shelton <mshelton@buffalo.edu>
From: Matt Shelton <mshelton@buffalo.edu>
To: RESNET-L@listserv.nd.edu
In-Reply-To: <EF6375215231544B87FD58A965410B8A614234@exchange.housing.ucsb.edu>
Dax,
Are you noticing these problems on both XP Home and Professional? I
haven't seen any problems of the like with Professional, and haven't heard
anything from anyone with XP Home, but then again, students don't begin to
retun to UB until the 20th. Hopefully we can figure out a solution to these
issues before then.
-Matt
--
Matthew Shelton
University at Buffalo
Help Desk Supervisor
mshelton@buffalo.edu
On Thu, 10 Jan 2002, Daxter Gulje wrote:
| Howdy pardners-
|
| I'm assuming that most of you on this list have had your
|students return from Christmas Break by now, and I will also assume that
|a large number of them returned to campus with a new computer loaded
|with XP or have upgraded to XP over the break.
| Has anyone else noticed a horrific amount of problems with XP
|and networking? For example, we're seeing a problem here that requires
|our individual attention on a per-user basis when it crops up;
| A student's machine will obtain a valid DHCP lease from our
|registration server. After registering, they are told to shutdown and
|reboot for the changes to enable full Internet access. Now, on other
|OSes (9.x/2k), you can at that point do a release/renew on the adapter
|and get rid of the unroutable address the reg server gave out and get a
|valid, routable address. You will still need to reboot, but you can see
|that you have obtained a valid address.
| Now, with XP, regardless of whether or not you reboot, shutdown,
|or release and renew, the client will ALWAYS grab the non-routable
|address again. The lease time for these addresses is only 2 minutes,
|but XP clients have been off for hours and they will still get the
|private address space lease.
| The ONLY way I've found around this problem is to switch the
|configuration to a static IP, ensure that the machine is able to cruise
|around on the Internet, then switch back to DHCP, at which point it gets
|a valid address from the reg server.
| Has anyone else experienced this (or any other) whacked out
|problems with XP?
|
|/Dax <--sad, tired, and confused.
|
|__________________________________________
|Daxter Gulje
|Assistant ResNet Coordinator
|University of California, Santa Barbara
|805.893.4747
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