Netsh command error "the command needs a valid scope ip address"

2013-03-13

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_{Wednesday, March 13, 2013 2:14 AM | 1 vote}

Hi guys,

I got an error "the command needs a valid scope ip address" when I use netsh command (Picture 1).

My test environment is using subnet mask 255.255.0.0 .

Then I test it in another environment which subnet mask is also 255.255.0.0 . And I don't got an error message (Picture 2 )

Does anybody know how to solve this problem ? Thanks a lot .

Picture 1

Picture 2

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_{Tuesday, March 26, 2013 6:12 AM ✅Answered | 5 votes}

I suddenly find the reason that just come from the UAC . After I "run as administrators" to run CMD . The netsh command run completely.

I think it is necessary to change the notice for Microsoft . Maybe "You don't have access to this command " is much more better than "This command needs a valid scope IP address"

Very thanks for all your support : ) .

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_{Thursday, March 14, 2013 8:31 AM | 1 vote}

Hi Robert,

In the DHCP Server (10.180.111.1), does the DHCP scope 10.180.0.0/16 exist?

If not, this issue will occur.

For example, I only have the DHCP scope (192.168.1.0/24) in my DHCP Server 192.168.1.1, when I run the similar command:

More information:

Netsh commands for DHCP

Hope this helps.

Jeremy Wu
TechNet Community Support

_{Thursday, March 14, 2013 11:27 AM}

Hi Jeremy ,

Very thanks for your reply . The scope 10.180.0.0/16 is exist .

I dont know where has someting worong in the DC .

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_{Thursday, March 21, 2013 5:29 AM}

Hi Robert,

Do you mean that 192.168.1.1 is the IP address of your DC? And, if there is something wrong with your DC, would you please let us know more details.

If we run netsh dhcp server show scope on 192.168.1.1, what will we receive?

In addition, we can use dcdiag to analyze the state of domain controllers.

Dcdiag

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc731968(v=ws.10).aspx

Hope this helps.

Jeremy Wu
TechNet Community Support

_{Thursday, March 21, 2013 5:46 AM}

Also, does the server have more than one active NIC (unteamed)?

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_{Tuesday, March 26, 2013 5:55 AM}

192.168.1.1 and 10.180.111.1 are two DC in different environment . I can get the following result after run show scope in DC 111.1

Furthermore the DC 111.1 just have one active NIC .

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_{Tuesday, March 26, 2013 11:43 PM}

Glad to hear you figured it out and it was an easy fix!

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_{Tuesday, August 19, 2014 3:16 PM}

thank you. this really helpful.

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