There are DHCP products that require authentication prior to giving out a DHCP address and these can be linked to AD. This can be setup to require a user to authenticate before the first IP address is handed out. During the renewals you might be able to use the Machine authentication to renew an IP address.
Dennis -----Original Message----- From: Murad Talukdar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2005 9:00 PM To: [email protected] Subject: prevent DHCP server giving out leases to non-domain machines? Hi, Is there a way to stop a W2003 DHCP server from giving out leases for IP's if a machine does not belong to the domain? Or is this a fruitless question that someone simply needs to point out something very simple to me. A machine can't join the domain if it doesn't have an IP first(chicken and egg type thing) I can see that but obviously I'm missing something here-perhaps it's a question of layers-the domain is working at a 'higher' layer? Kind Regards Murad Talukdar ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
