I'm new in installing and setting up Windows NT 4.0 Servers. I have setup a few Windows NT 4.0 Servers and I want to designate one of these server as a DHCP Server. How can I set it up as the DHCP Server? And how will I know that it is the doing what it suppose to do? Next, how do I manage it. Is it similar to Windows NT IIS? Does it have a console or interface?
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DHCP Server
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On the server you designate as your DHCP server, go into the Network applet in control panel. Choose "Services" and then "Add". Find the DHCP Server Service and add it to the machine.
It will also install an application called "DHCP Administrator" which you open from the Administrative Tools menu. Double-click on your server IP address to make that the active server. You will now need to create a "Scope". This is the set of IP addresses and other information you want the DHCP server to manage. Go to the menu, under "Scope" and select "Create". Add the starting IP address and the ending IP address for this server to manage, and the Subnet mask. Close the windows, and say "Yes" that you want to activate the scope.
You can also have this server give out other information. I recommend that you add: domain name, DNS server(s), and WINS server(s) as a minimum. These options can be added from the menu under "DHCP Options", "Global". Select them from the menu and add the appropriate values.
By the way - there is a bug in the DHCP Administrator that after you add scope options it comes back and says "No more data is available". Close the DHCP Administrator and re-open it - the information you added will now be there.
As far as seeing if it is working, go to one of your workstations, change the IP address to "Obtain IP Address from a DHCP Server". Reboot the PC and see if you can log on to the network. If you can, open a command prompt and type "ipconfig /all" and see if the information is the same as you entered in the DHCP server.
That's it - good luck!
- Bill
"You can get anything you want out of life, if you'll just help enough other people get what they want" - Zig Ziglar
It will also install an application called "DHCP Administrator" which you open from the Administrative Tools menu. Double-click on your server IP address to make that the active server. You will now need to create a "Scope". This is the set of IP addresses and other information you want the DHCP server to manage. Go to the menu, under "Scope" and select "Create". Add the starting IP address and the ending IP address for this server to manage, and the Subnet mask. Close the windows, and say "Yes" that you want to activate the scope.
You can also have this server give out other information. I recommend that you add: domain name, DNS server(s), and WINS server(s) as a minimum. These options can be added from the menu under "DHCP Options", "Global". Select them from the menu and add the appropriate values.
By the way - there is a bug in the DHCP Administrator that after you add scope options it comes back and says "No more data is available". Close the DHCP Administrator and re-open it - the information you added will now be there.
As far as seeing if it is working, go to one of your workstations, change the IP address to "Obtain IP Address from a DHCP Server". Reboot the PC and see if you can log on to the network. If you can, open a command prompt and type "ipconfig /all" and see if the information is the same as you entered in the DHCP server.
That's it - good luck!
- Bill"You can get anything you want out of life, if you'll just help enough other people get what they want" - Zig Ziglar
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