samba - Apr 2003 - Samba PDC/Windows BDC

I have a RH 7.2 PDC which uses DHCP for 2 machines on the network. My Win9x
machine as a client/BDC just in case and uses a static IP. If the PDC goes
down. I have to put in or take out the PDC's gateway IP and was wondering if
there was a way to get ONLY the info I need from DHCP to the Win machine. To
attempt to clarify,  when the PDC is up, it will assign its gateway IP to
the BDC (since it is a client normally), if the server should go down, I'd
just renew the BDC's IP(winipcfg), activate the DHCP server on the BDC and
use it until the problem is PDC is back up(renewing the clients as well, of
course). 
If this is not possible with my setup, any suggestions will be investigated,
short of having to manually change the BDC. 
Kev

Well first of all Win9x has no ability to be a BDC in a NT4 type environment
such as yours, secondly you wont be able to replicate DHCP scopes between
the two platforms (even 2 windows machines have trouble with this). In order
to set up a back up DHCP box, create a completely new one using a different
IP scope with enough address space to cover your machines, and keep it
disabled until needed.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin Smith" <ksmith@perfht.com>
To: "Samba" <samba@lists.samba.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2003 11:20 AM
Subject: [Samba] Samba PDC/Windows BDC

> I have a RH 7.2 PDC which uses DHCP for 2 machines on the network. My
Win9x
> machine as a client/BDC just in case and uses a static IP. If the PDC goes
> down. I have to put in or take out the PDC's gateway IP and was
wondering
if
> there was a way to get ONLY the info I need from DHCP to the Win machine.
To
> attempt to clarify,  when the PDC is up, it will assign its gateway IP to
> the BDC (since it is a client normally), if the server should go down,
I'd
> just renew the BDC's IP(winipcfg), activate the DHCP server on the BDC
and
> use it until the problem is PDC is back up(renewing the clients as well,
of
> course).
> If this is not possible with my setup, any suggestions will be
investigated,
> short of having to manually change the BDC.
> Kev
>
>

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