How To Set Up a DHCP Server (Windows Embedded CE 6.0)
1/6/2010
After you have installed Windows Server 2003 and configured it for Active Directory and DNS, you are ready to set up the DHCP server for your test environment.
Note
If the private network that you have established for testing already includes a previously configured DHCP server, you may skip this section.
Procedure
To set up your DHCP server
In the Manage Your Server window, click Add or remove a role.
In the Configure Your Server Wizard, on the Server Role page, select DHCP Server from the list, as shown in the following figure, and then click Next.
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This adds the new role to your server.
On the Summary of Selections page, review the server options that you have chosen, and then click Next.
The New Scope Wizard opens.
On the Welcome page, click Next.
On the Scope Name page, enter a name and a description for the scope of the server.
Note
The name that you provide here does not affect the configuration or how IP address requests are served.
Click Next.
On the IP Address Range page, provide a range of IP addresses for this server to assign. See the example in the following figure.
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This is range of addresses is the scope of your DHCP server. For best results, provide a range of at least 10 IP addresses and no more than 245 addresses.
Click Next.
On the Add Exclusions page, if the DHCP scope you entered in step 7 includes all of the IP addresses on your subnet, you must reserve static IP addresses for the AP control server and the RADIUS server here. However, if the scope does not contain all of the IP addresses of the subnet that you created, you can ignore this page.
Note
"Exclusions" are either individual IP addresses or a range of IP addresses that are not distributed by the DHCP server.
Click Next.
On the Lease Duration page, accept the default setting of eight days by clicking Next.
The lease duration is the length of time a client device may use an assigned IP address.
On the Configure DHCP Options page, click Yes, I want to configure these options now, and then click Next.
This ensures that the DHCP clients in your test environment can use the assigned scope.
On the Router (Default Gateway) page, leave all of the fields blank, and click Next.
These fields are not used for this test environment.
On the Domain Name and DNS Servers page, enter the name of the parent domain, and the name of the server, and the IP address that you specified during the process of installing Active Directory.
Note
If you cannot remember the names or IP address that you assigned to the server, you can find them by going to Control Panel and clicking System Properties, and then clicking the Computer Name tab.
Click Next.
If you plan to use WINS, on the WINS Servers page, specify the WINS server name and IP address.
Note
The test environment for the Wi-Fi Authentication Test Suite does not require the use of WINS.
On the Activate Scope page, click Yes, I want to activate this scope now, and then click Next.
This activates the scope.
When the wizard is done, click Finish.
If this is the first time you have worked through the Configure Your Server Wizard, a confirmation screen appears, explaining the changes that have been made.
Important
Before the server can process DHCP requests, you must authorize the scope in Active directory, as described in the next procedure.
To authorize the DHCP server scope in Active Directory
On the Start menu, click Administrative Tools.
Open the DHCP Management Console.
In the pane on the left, under DHCP, select the fully-qualified domain name of the test server that you have just configured, as shown in the following figure.
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To authorize the DHCP server, in the Toolbar, click the Authorization icon
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.When the authorization process is complete, the right pane of the DHCP console window shows that the scope is active, as illustrated in the following figure.
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Note
If the status of the Scope node in the right pane does not indicate that it is active after a few minutes, press F5 to refresh the screen.
See Also
Tasks
How To Set Up Active Directory
How To Set Up a DNS Server
Other Resources
How To Set Up Authentication Servers on Windows Server 2003
Wi-Fi Authentication Tests