RIS 2003 troubles!

[Galen Counselman]

OK,

My company recently approved an upgraded RIS server. We were using Server 2000. We put together a nice server and bought Server 2003 for it. I set up RIS services and went through its whole bit and then afterwards authorized it on our DHCP server. I also went into AD and set it to respond to clients. I also at that time unauthorize the previous RIS server and set it not to respond to clients in AD.

Here is my problem:

Client machines on the same subnet constantly get "no reply from the server". Every blue moon it will receive a reply and ask me to press F12 to boot. However, it is not consistent and I can barely ever even get it to give me an F12.

I have tried replacing the NIC card and that didn't work. I was using a leased IP address, so I set it static, that didn't make a difference. I even in desperationg formatted and installed Win 2000 server and set up RIS and it is doing the same exact thing! I also have checked the services to make sure they were started each time.

Help please!

-galen

[Rune J. Winje]

Where is your DCHP server located? On the same IP-subnet as the client and RIS server also?

If not a local DHCP server or DHCP relay agent may be needed.

If that is OK, then it seems you have checked the other possible DHCP issues (autorization), but anyway double-check it and also refer to point 3 in this
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;284987
for relevant events in the log confirming RIS operation.

Other known issues are mostly with servers that have more than one NIC
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;329839


Cheers,
Rune

[Norman_21]

Hello

Just my $0.2 cents.
Make sure in the old RIS server you stop and disable all the services.
Make sure that the NIC card supports RIS, if not then add the NIC driver.
Other than that, Rune gave some good advice.
Good luck