Re: DHCP

YoJa wrote:

I have serveral mac's and and pc's on a network. The DHCP server is running on a windows 2000 server.

Intermittently some of the pc's ( never the same ones) cannot connect to the network. If I stop and restart the DHCP service on the pc it will connect immediately. I have read that this may be related to one of the Mac's acting as a DHCP server. Can any one tell me where to find the DCHP setting on the mac's and what the settings should be?

thanks.

Go to 'System Preferences ...' on the Apple Menu, click 'Sharing', select the 'Internet' tab. This will tell you whether Internet Sharing is on or off and therefore whether the Mac is acting as a DHCP server. If it is you can click on the 'Stop' button.

As a side note, I don't know how many systems you've got or whether you have some special reason for using DHCP, but I've always found it less hassle in the long run to manually define each node's IP address rather than allowing a DHCP server to do it.
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