One of our servers has an IP Address of 192.168.1.101. Every few days (and sometimes every day) the system reports an IP Address conflict with another machine.
I’ve traced the physical addresses down to the IP addresses and resolved the names of the machines from there. They are all laptops that are causing the issue.
My assumpion is that these users take home their laptops, and I’m guessing they are getting on their home networks and getting the same IP Address (192.168.1.101). Then when they come to work and login to the domain, I think that’s when they conflict occurs (always in the early a.m.)
The conflict is causing issues with software on the server and I need to resolve the issue as soon as I can. Is there anything I can do for the short-run to get this situation corrected? And how can I go about correcting this issue so that we can avoid this problem in the future?
