On Mon, 2007-02-12 at 10:13 -0500, Bob Chiodini wrote: > It seems to me that Linux and others probably, as well, "ask" the DHCP > server to renew its address halfway through the lease time. Asking for > the same address it already has. Generally the DHCP server says 'okay', > since the address is not in use by anyone else. If your server is not > getting the same address every time, something might be wrong with the > Linksys. Or I completely misunderstand how this is all supposed to > work, which is certainly possible. :-) No, you're right. That would be the normal way for DHCP to work (asking to extend the lease on the same IP, and usually getting it). > Any new windows machines (laptops, etc.) coming up on the network will > likely find an existing "Master Browser" that can resolve the server > addresses (NetBIOS) as long as they are not changing. It does sound like a name resolution issue, and with SMB thrown into the picture it's often more than just DHCP/DNS issues. On a mixed Linux/Windows network, Samba can be a right pain, as Windows may insist on being a master browser, even if you didn't want that, and any changes to machine addresses can take a long time to get recognised. We probably need to see the Samba config file, as well as knowing how machine names are resolved on that LAN (hosts, lmhosts, DNS, Wins, whatever). -- (This box runs FC5, my others run FC4 & FC6, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
