[gentoo-user] Connecting a Linux workstation to a Windoze server

[gentoo-user] Connecting a Linux workstation to a Windoze server

[Andrew Lowe]

Hi all,
	I have the situation where I work that it is a total M$ setup. Our 
workstations use DHCP to grab IP addresses from the Win2003 server. For 
various reasons I want to place a Gentoo box on the network. For some 
reason when I try to bring up the network interface on the Gentoo box, 
which has a dhcp client, the dhcp client times out and I can't obviously 
get an IP address.

	Does anyone know of any gotcha's or traps for young players when trying 
to get IP addresses from a Win2003 server from the Linux world?

	Any thoughts grealy appreciated,
		Andrew
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Re: [gentoo-user] Connecting a Linux workstation to a Windoze server

[Nick Rout]

On Sun, 23 Oct 2005 14:07:42 +1000
Andrew Lowe <agl@wht.com.au> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 	I have the situation where I work that it is a total M$ setup. Our 
> workstations use DHCP to grab IP addresses from the Win2003 server. For 
> various reasons I want to place a Gentoo box on the network. For some 
> reason when I try to bring up the network interface on the Gentoo box, 
> which has a dhcp client, the dhcp client times out and I can't obviously 
> get an IP address.
> 
> 	Does anyone know of any gotcha's or traps for young players when trying 
> to get IP addresses from a Win2003 server from the Linux world?
> 
> 	Any thoughts grealy appreciated,
> 		Andrew

Try running dhcpcd -d eth0

-d is debug, and may help you figure out what i going wrong.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Connecting a Linux workstation to a Windoze server

[Bill Roberts]

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On 14:07 Sun 23 Oct     , Andrew Lowe wrote:
> Hi all,
> 	I have the situation where I work that it is a total M$ setup. Our 
> workstations use DHCP to grab IP addresses from the Win2003 server. For 
> various reasons I want to place a Gentoo box on the network. For some 
> reason when I try to bring up the network interface on the Gentoo box, 
> which has a dhcp client, the dhcp client times out and I can't obviously 
> get an IP address.
> 
I'm getting my ip's form a W2k3 server, using dhcpcd as a client.

I put the following in /etd/conf.d/net:

iface_eth0="dhcp"
dhcpcd_eth0="-h $(hostname) -N"

I understand that Gentoo now sends the hostname by default, so the:
    
    "-h $(hostname)"

may not be needed.

Good luck.

Bill Roberts

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