PXE E51 No DHCP or proxy DHCP offers were received for WDS set up

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I'm hoping someone could help me with WDS, I currently have a 5 PC set up which one PC is the Windows 2012 R2 server and that connects to the other four PCs via a switch which all PCs can ping one another on static IPs.

On my server I have the roles DHCP, AD DS, DNS, windows assessment and deployment kit and WDS set up and configured. However when I try to actually deploy I get the error:

PXE E51 No DHCP or proxy DHCP offers were received

I feel that this may be a port issue, however I'm not able to do anything outside of the two server options of not listening to the DHCP port and using the proxy service. I tried to change the port through the admin tools fire wall, but the OS won't let me make any changes. Any know how else to go about changing the ports?

I also haven't configured the switch, not sure if I need to change anything on that.

Any help with this would be appreciated.

Best Answer

From what you are describing it sounds like you need to configure WDS to work in sync with your DHCP server. WDS itself is a DHCP server, PXE server and TFTP server. It uses the DHCP part of WDS to identify the platform/hardware and PXE/TFTP to boot the computer.

To configure your WDS server, go to the WDS MMC (Microsoft Management Console) and open the properties box for your server.Right click and press properties

Next go to the DHCP tab and check the appropriate boxes. In your case it should be both boxes. The top one tells the WDS server that there is another DHCP server on the computer. The second one tells it if it is a microsoft server, so that it could auto configure the DHCP server (if supported). Configure to your current setup.

TL;DR:

Configure the DHCP tab of the WDS properties to match your current DHCP setup.

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