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by bfeltus

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I have a small windows 2000 server network. I have 8 windows 2000 pro clients. The server has active directory installed. I purchased a 3COM 56K Lan modem to give users access to our 1 isp account. My question is: Should I let the lan modem assign ip addresses or should I installed dhcp on the server(256mg Ram). If I let the lan modem, how do I get it to work with active directory? Please give me detail information on how to let the server know the lan modem will give out the ip addresses. Thank you.

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by p. dickason, cne, mcse, cca

All you need to do to turn off DHCP on the win2k server is go under the Start menu | Programs | Administrative tools | DHCP and stop the service then delete the config. Keep in mind the 3com is not Dynamic DNS compatable so you'll loose your workstation entries within DNS. This means you'll want to leave DHCP on the win2k server if you have file or printer sharing on the workstations or any other service for that matter. Hope this helps.
Pete

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