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[Coen Boef]

Hello everybody,

I ran into a problem with one of our customers networks. We installed a 
Redhat 8.0 server a while ago and never updated it since it was behind a 
firewall and we did not see why we should fix something which wasn't 
broken. On a monday morning I typed 'up2date -u' in the wrong terminal and 
didn't bother to look at it before it was too late. The entire system was 
updated and started to show some unusual behaviour.

First thing we noticed was that users couldn't log on with Windows XP to 
the Samba domain. After a lot of tries they could log on, but they didn't 
get all of their shares (especially their home dirs weren't mapped). I 
roled the samba install back from 2.2.7 to 2.2.5 and the problem seemed to 
be fixed.
After about a week they started calling us again then it sometimes took up 
to 20 tries to log on to the domain. After some research I found out that 
they didn't receive an IP address from the DHCP server. The log didn't show 
that it had been updated by up2date but the problem does seem to exist 
since the update. The network works fine with static IP's but the DHCP for 
some reason refuses to hand out IP's. /var/log/messages shows incoming 
calls (discover/offer/ACK) but the XP clients either never get it, or for 
some reason don't use it.

Can somebody please tell me what happend and how I can fix this problem?
It would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance,


Coen Boef