DHCP assigns clients multiple IP addresses

I setup a 2003 DNS/DHCP/WINS primary server and a secondary for my NT4
domain. We will be migrating soon, so this was a logical first step.
(Works great too) I have noticed, however, that there are some XP
clients that when they connect and receive a DHCP address, they will
obtain multiple IP addresses. (Upwards of 5 addresses)

I narrowed it down to the Remote Access Service on the clients. If
this service is turned off, then the clients will only obtain one
address. This is good, however the people that are having this
problem are my laptop users. When they are on travel, they are not
able to connect to any RAS accounts because the service is off.

I don't have RRAS turned on, on the server, so it probably isn't anything in there.

I would like to solve this problem the best way. Obviously, I can't
ask my users to turn off the service when they are in the building,
but I figure there has to be a simple solution that will solve this
problem.

Thanks
Matt

It should only happen if the clients are configured to allow incoming
remote access connections. The machine acquires the IP addresses from DHCP
to use for the remote machines which connect to it.

So you do not have to disable the remote access service. You just need
to make sure they are not configured to allow incoming remote access. When
they connect as remote access clients, the IP addresses are allocated by the
RAS server they connect to.

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> I setup a 2003 DNS/DHCP/WINS primary server and a secondary for my NT4
> domain. We will be migrating soon, so this was a logical first step.
> (Works great too) I have noticed, however, that there are some XP
> clients that when they connect and receive a DHCP address, they will
> obtain multiple IP addresses. (Upwards of 5 addresses)
>
> I narrowed it down to the Remote Access Service on the clients. If
> this service is turned off, then the clients will only obtain one
> address. This is good, however the people that are having this
> problem are my laptop users. When they are on travel, they are not
> able to connect to any RAS accounts because the service is off.
>
> I don't have RRAS turned on, on the server, so it probably isn't anything
in there.
>
> I would like to solve this problem the best way. Obviously, I can't
> ask my users to turn off the service when they are in the building,
> but I figure there has to be a simple solution that will solve this
> problem.
>
> Thanks
> Matt