Anyone know WDS/RIS well?

paradigm

paradigm

paradigm

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Hi guys,

I've recently caused an issue with my RIS server. We are in the middle of a virtualisation project, and overnight I ran the VMWare converter agent on our RIS server to bring it up on the VMWare ESX4 Host. The conversion went fine, and WDS (running in legacy compatibility with RIS as the functional part - as of yet we don't deploy vista/7 images) appears to be running fine, all services start, etc etc.

Now the fun part is that the machine has now moved from our old 192.168.x.x single subnetted LAN to our new VLAN'd network, and is currently residing in 10.1.0.x (10.1.0.19 to be exact). So the IP has been changed (statically), and the server has been re-authorised in DHCP and AD (by running the RISetup.exe -verify command). The services were then stopped and started.

Now I can't get any clients to boot from it at all, and I'm not sure what to try next given that I've done everything that I can think of.

Any ideas?
 
You might have a better chance in the Server/Enterprise forum, or even Networking. Is the RIS server actually visible to client machines or is it as if it's not there at all?
 
paradigm said:
Now the fun part is that the machine has now moved from our old 192.168.x.x single subnetted LAN to our new VLAN'd network, and is currently residing in 10.1.0.x (10.1.0.19 to be exact). So the IP has been changed (statically), and the server has been re-authorised in DHCP and AD (by running the RISetup.exe -verify command). The services were then stopped and started.

Now I can't get any clients to boot from it at all, and I'm not sure what to try next given that I've done everything that I can think of.

Any ideas?
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Have you created a DHCP Scope for the neew 10.1.0.x range? Not sure if have as you mentioned authorising but nothing about a new scope?
 
hatrick said:
Have you created a DHCP Scope for the neew 10.1.0.x range? Not sure if have as you mentioned authorising but nothing about a new scope?
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There are new scopes for all the new subnets (well, the ones that require DHCP addressing). There is also an "ip helper-address" set in the config of the switch (Cisco 3750G) to allow inter-vlan routing from the respective VLANs to the DHCP server.

Rhys said:
can you ping it?
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Yep, everything that matters is pingable from every other thing that matters. (ie, DHCP server can ping both RIS and Client, RIS can ping DHCP and Client, Client can ping RIS and DHCP).

theheyes said:
You might have a better chance in the Server/Enterprise forum, or even Networking. Is the RIS server actually visible to client machines or is it as if it's not there at all?
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Yeah, forgot about the server forum, doh!

The RIS server is fully visible from the Client (as in, if I boot the client into windows, I can see UNC paths on the RIS box).
 
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I's ok, I sorted it.

I didn't realise that I needed two "IP helper-address" lines in the config of the switch, one for the DHCP and one for RIS.

Oh well.
 
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