[OpenIndiana-discuss] Static IP problem

[Jonathan Adams]

On 8 July 2014 17:53, James Carlson <carlsonj at workingcode.com> wrote:
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>
> > We have had problems in the past at another site, with Windows PC's on
> the
> > Solaris DHCP server (we put it down to the wiring, but it could be
> > anything) that PC's running Windows XP and Microsoft office, at the point
> > in time that the lease is renegotiated would reconnect to the samba
> server
> > without first disconnecting, causing the document to deny writing because
> > it was already open for editing, and automatically closing ... in that
> case
> > setting static IP was the easiest solution.
>
> I haven't run into that.  I normally get back the same address on lease
> renewal.  I'd certainly call it a server bug if you *don't* get the same
> address on renewal and you haven't also completely run out of addresses.
>

that was the strange thing, they got the same IP addresses back, but
something to do with how the windows was DHCP'ing meant that it didn't
gracefully close the samba connection, or re-use it properly after the
re-leasing ...

either way, the problem settled down, possibly because they use a newer
version of MS office, or a newer version of windows, or a newer version of
samba, or newer network cables ... but the DHCP server is still the sun
standard one ...

Most of these things could probably have been found/fixed in time, but in
the end we just worked around them because it was quicker.

Jon