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by bill.beckett

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Getting conflicting answers. Can someone give me a definitive answer?

We have right now, DHCP running on a Netware server. We want to move this off Netware and over to Windows. However, my boss wants to put it on a 2000 box since we will be upgrading soon. BUT, we are still running an NT domain. We have a couple of 2000 server but none are Domain Controllers.

My question is this:

With no 2000 DC's we are obviously not running AD. Can I run DHCP on a 2000 server in a network that is notrunning AD? Or can you not do this because a 2000 DHCPP Server has to be authorized?

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by dc1

You can run a DHCP server on Windows 2000 with NO Active Directory. When your company does decide to implement Active Directory you will then ned to authorize the server inside of AD.

by frec1

I'm not sure but I know Windows 2000 cannot run in a mixed server environment in native mode don't you have to run it in a halfway mode. Wouldn't this affect it's services if it's not running in native mode.

FREC

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