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Help!!! Win2K hardware profiles?

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by adriatico

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I have a Win2K notebook user who has a need to log in to three separate networks at three different sites.

Problem: Two of the sites use DHCP. My site uses static IP numbers. He wants me to set up one of our servers to handle DHCP, but my manager is against that idea.

What's the best solution for this. I've thought about a separate hardware profile for when he's on my network, but I'm not sure if this will allow different IP settings. Maybe a batch file he can run from the desktop? Something that sets a static ip number and another one to enable dhcp?

Thanks in advance.

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by sfo farmer

I just had the same problem yesterday. We tried seperate profiles, but this was to confusing for the laptop user. I'm in the same boat also... my home net has DHCP and I'm static at work...

My manager was also against DHCP, but we compromised on DHCP for one address (which was the users fixed IP for the network here) and reserved by his MAC address. That way no other client could access his IP via DHCP. It will take a few minutes to set up and for the convenience of the user, just plug in and go... Hope this helps (show it to your manager) SFO

by adriatico

Thanks. In the end, we've ended up deciding to use DHCP as our network will be growing 100% in the next few months. I'll definitely be reserving IPs for MAC addresses, though.

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