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Exchange - IP Addressing Issue

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by dave

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If we use DHCP to lease IP address within a specified range the PC's will reluctantly or not at all connect via Outlook to the exchange (MS SBS 4.5) If we use a static IP address it works!!!

I have removed all DHCP and reinstalled to the same effect

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by rick03y

I am guessing that you want to use DHCP but without the connection problems, but I don't know by your question if you are trying to use a dynamic address for your exchange server or not. If that is the case you need to not do that. Like your server, gateway, and other things your exchange server is something that needs to have a static address. So just assign an address to the exchange server and then exclude that address when you set up DHCP. And just as a side note make sure that all of your mail boxes in exchange are mapped to a specific NT domain user account.

by dave

This has already been done, the server has been working correctly for a number of months only during the last three days are we encountering this error.
Any further suggestions ?
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by mark_lt

check your wins settings, and the node type configured for for the wins entry, should normally be 0x8 hybrid

by mark_lt

also, do the clients actually get a DHCP assigned IP ? for IP, mask, gateway, dns and wins ?

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