I have SME server 6.X running in server/gateway mode. The server has been running fine for a couple of years now but within the last 10 days a couple of issued have poped up (I will only describe 1 issue here the other will be a seperate post). A few people when logging onto the network they did not get an IP address from the DHCP server. Even after rebooting the client it still did not get an address. It had an address, but the address was out of the DHCP range and there was no gateway address. I was able to fix each system by going to a command prompt and using the command "ipconfig" to release and renew the address. Rebooting the system had no effect on the system either to fix the error or recreate the error post fixing with "ipconfig".
While this solution worked it has happened to several systems and may happen again or cause other system to have problems so I am interested in figuring out what could be causing to problems in the first place.
The solution to this problem could also fix another problem I have where users have been having a problem losing the connection to another Linux server on the same network for short periods of time when trying to save files
I will be very thankfull for any help