[K12OSN] is it possible to use Windows DHCP server with LTSP?
Burroughs, Henry
HBurroughs at HHPREP.ORG
Wed Oct 25 17:07:43 UTC 2006
John,
Here's my config from Windows 2003 R2 DHCP: (which hands out pxe
successfully). You have to tweak the bootfile parameter for etherboot
systems. I used it to hand out DHCP across multiple subnets, our
central router does a DHCP/BOOTP relay to the IP address of the dhcp
server.
Global Options:
Option Name Vendor Value Class
006 DNS Servers Standard 10.142.1.7, 10.142.1.11 None
015 DNS Domain Name Standard hhp.hhprep.org None
017 Root Path Standard 192.168.0.5:/opt/ltsp/i386 None
044 WINS/NBNS Servers Standard 10.142.1.7, 10.142.1.11 None
046 WINS/NBT Node Type Standard 0x8 None
066 Boot Server Host Name Standard discovery.media.local
None
067 Bootfile Name Standard /lts/pxe/pxelinux.0 None
You really don't need to worry about the WINS stuff. Also, I'm
transitioning my domains, so I have some stuff on the old "MEDIA.LOCAL",
and some on the new "HHP.HHPREP.ORG" so it looks a little wonky.
Within each subnet config, I add the default gateway/router. That's it.
Remember, this config is for PXE bootable images. Change the Bootfile
name to the Etherboot one if you need that as the default. Windows DHCP
doesn't do the nice if/else selection of Bootfiles.... I personally am
going to redo all my thin-client hd installs and setup those etherboot
images to boot PXE.
Hope this helps.
Henry Burroughs
Technology Director
Hilton Head Preparatory School
www.hhprep.org
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Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 08:50:13 -0700
From: "john " <lists.john at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [K12OSN] is it possible to use Windows DHCP server with
LTSP?
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Hi Chuck,
A couple of questions:
1) Do I need option 12, the netvista option, if I am not using
netvistas? Is
this a generic netboot parameter?
2) If windows pads the root path with 000 do I need a symlink on my
linux
server from a directory called /opt/ltsp/i386000 > /opt/ltsp/i386
3) is the string for option 211 always tftp?
4) I glibly said I had the other boot parameters (ip, subnet mask,
gateway)
correctly set, because those parameters are the defaults handed over by
the
dhcp server on that scope. As I think about it I think I should be using
an
ip, subnet mask, and gateway consistent with that of the ltsp server
(which
sits on a different subnet than my test client. So if my LTSP server is
10.114.0.105/16 my clients should be 10.114.0.x/16 and use 10.114.0.105
as
the gateway. Err, but perhaps I am getting myself in a muddle here.
Thanks again.
John
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