I have a win2003 domain at home. Now i set it up so the scope is 192.168.1.60 - .75 i statically set one of the clients to 192.168.1.62 and everything worked good . Now i still have my router in place but the client i made 192.168.1.62 i set the gateway to the 2003 server so it souhlldnt be getting an ip from router right?

well the problm is the internet works and all on the client. but when i goto 2003 server and view the DHCP settings it says nothing is being leased out? Why is this i mean the client gateway is the server the internet works and all. Or is it because i set it statically so the server is in theory not leasing anything?

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DHCP server can only lease ip addresses assigned dynamically by even this DHCP server.

But even if i set it static in which i did will it still be a vaild ip? i mean it must cause it would be an invalid ip if not? i mean the gateway is that server and internet works and router does not appear to be supplying the 192.168.1.62 with that address you think maybe the router is still doing the work.

Ps. i left the router on cause this is my first domain setup and i want to get everything working before i take router out.
which leads me to a new question but i will make new thread

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What you have to check is simply
1. the ip address of the router
2. is DHCP disabled at the router (it should, because one net, one DHCP server to avoid trouble)
3. open a dos box and check the ip settings by typing ipconfig /all
check ip address, default gateway and dns server entries
4. in the dos box do a tracert to the internet. E.g. tracert google.com and look for the first one or two listed hops.

Well your saying if i simply disable DHCP on my router the client computers should connect to win2003 DHCP? i mean with the exception of changing the gateway and what not?

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It's just simple.
If your win2003 server acts as a DHCP server and your router acts as a DHCP server, you'll never know with of both is the first server that assigns the ip address, standard gateway and dns server infos to your workstation.
So ONLY ONE DHCP PER NETWORK, is the golden rule.

If you've configured your win2003 server for DHCP, normally the following settings are given to the workstation:
- IP-Address (for the workstation)
- Sunnet mask
- Standard gateway
- DNS server

Well im just saying by having the gateway to the clients pointed at the server i would assume that is the supling the client? ok well how bout this my internet comes in off a cble modem to router so would i in turn make it go from cable modem to a nic card on server or how i go about that?

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You misunderstand vande. This also goes back to your post on DNS. Again you need to read the MS manual on dhcp and dns.

The gateway entry remains the same. Your router which is the gateway from your network to the internet. Only if you turned your server into a router with two nics would the server be listed as a gateway.

You need to get a handle on the basics of server configuration before moving on to more complex setups like using the server as a router.

Given you are not routing thru your server the entries for the following would be:
- IP-Address (for the workstation)you lan subnet like 192.168.1.x
- Subnet mask usually 255.255.255.0
- Standard gateway - would be your router 192.168.1.1 usually
- DNS server - is your MS DNS servers ip address

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