Cant get PXE clients to boot/receive bootp filenam

[ixion]

Ok, I thought I would I install the first RIS server at work today

I booted up a member server (Windows 2003 SP1) which I use for various administratiive tasks and installed RIS, rebooted and added an XP image.

I then ran the RIS Testing tool which said everything was ok and it ensured the services were started and that DHCP was authorised.

I then hopped onto the DHCP server (Windows 2000 SP4) right clicked on the relevant bit and went into "manage authorised server" the new RIS server wasn't in there so I went ahead and added it manually by hostname which resolved to the correct IP address.

I then went back to the RIS server and restarted the remote install services

Thinking I had covered everything I tried to boot a PXE compliant machine and it just stopped at the DHCP....... bit and then told me that it didnt receive a bootp file name and carried on booting into Windows XP.

The machine can obtain an IP address from DHCP from within XP fine. Its a Dell Optiplex machine with an integrated PXE compliant NIC

I have since tried going into DHCP right clicking on the scope and enabling DHCP to respond to both DHCP and BOOTP clients with the same result

the message I am getting is

"the proxyDHCP server did not reply to the request on port 4011"

I can see that the PXE client has received an IP address as it displays this to me, it also tells me which server it received the IP address from and it is receiving the IP address from the correct DHCP server (as above) - it just doesnt seem to be getting any BOOTP information

Any ideas?

[ixion]

Ok I've found the solution to this if anyone was interested

In some cases you cant have two network adapters in a RIS server if the NIC's are part of two seperate networks. Disabling additional NIC's solved the problem