Wifi – D-link DAP-1353 n2 not giving IP address

Well ... nevermind!

I found out how to specify a pool of IP addresses for the server to assign to clients rather than use DHCP. I configured that, still not working ... then I realized that the network on the server was more screwed up than I had known. Basically no external connections were working ... I disabled/enabled the Local Area Network connection on the server and now everything works.

Thanks anyways :-)

My understanding has always been that the Windows DHCP service will shut itself down if it detects the presence of another DHCP server on the network. As a first step, I would suggest shutting down the Linksys DHCP component and using only the W2K3R2 server as the DHCP server. Make sure the server and scope are configured correctly and reboot one of the affected client computers and see what happens. In addition, you can install and run a packet capture program on the DHCP server (and client if needed) and capture network traffic to see what DHCP traffic is being receieved and sent by the server and the client.