DHCP Name Reservations being renamed

Question

by default our printers get assigned a naming convention that start with NPI then followed with a series of numbers and letters. [NPI00E***]

Currently I'm making DHCP reservations for printers on the network, and using my networks naming proper naming convention for the reservations. Is it possible that if i dont change the name on the client end it will update the name reservation that i have given it to its default name?

overall issue::
printer name reservations on the DHCP server are being automatically renamed to the default printer client name when ever we have a power outage that affect our routers and or switches. I cant figure out who or what is setting these reservation names back to a different name than the one given. I didnt think a reservation name could be changed or updated by the client. Thanks for clearing this up for me in advanced.

Answer 1

Hello XE3,

This forum provides support for documentation and interoperability questions on open specifications.
The Open Protocol Specifications can be found at: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc203350.aspx.
Your post does not appear to be related to the Open Protocols Specifications documentation set.

You may want to try one of our other  forums to get you started finding what you need. I think the below forum would be a good place to start:

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/windowsserver2008r2networking/threads

Thanks
John Dunning
Senior Escalation Engineer Microsoft Corporation
US-CSS DSC PROTOCOL TEAM

Answer 2

whoops, thanks....will look into it

cheers!