Problems attaching to network
We are in a small office for a large company and have been having problems ever since they did an IP re-addressing about a month ago. If you have to go to another office (or even home networks)with your laptop, login to that network, and then come back to the office, you can never get a good IP address. In the event viewer, event id's 1003 then 1007 (DHCP errors - in essence, it can't reach the DHCP server.)The exact 1003 error is :
Your computer was not able to renew its address from the network (from the DHCP Server) for the Network Card with network address *********. The following error occurred:
The semaphore timeout period has expired. . Your computer will continue to try and obtain an address on its own from the network address (DHCP) server.
Then it auto-configures an IP address. (error 1007) Sometimes if you do an ipconfig release/renew, it will grab an IP, but sometimes you have to do another cold boot, but then it connects fine. The error occurs in both MS XP and Win2k. Is there anything we can do on our end to alleviate this problem, or does Corporate have to adjust something on their end?
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April 4, 2005 10:23 AM
UPDATED:
April 4, 2005 1:02 PM
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What is the lease time for your DHCP servers? If you are moving laptops from net to net you may want short lease times so the client isn't trying to renew an IP from another net. The hint I am using here is the message about not being able to renew the address.
Depending on how many clients are on each net you may be able cut the lease times down to a couple of hours.
If this is the issue, the problem is likely the DHCP servers at the other offices or home locations. The client system has no control over the lease time.
The only part I see that conflicts with this explanation is sometimes needing a reboot after release/renew but there have been bugs in this microsoft client software in the past.
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