On 16/11/2011 22:56, Christopher Woods (CustomMade) wrote:
Surely if a machine has a fixed static IP, it doesn't even enter into discussion with the network's DHCP server to request a lease? Just the usual broadcast traffic...
I'm not a networking or Windows expert, but this presumably depends on whether the client (XP?) actually has the VNC server's IP address in its hosts file (something like C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts). If it doesn't, then it will send a request to get the address from the DHCP server. If the client ends up using the IP address supplied by the server, then it will eventually expire. I've had exactly this problem on another X server (not VNC).
James: what's in your hosts file? And how does the client actually connect to the server? What's the VNC command line?
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