I'm going mad, Server 2003

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I am not disagreeing with you, yes you are creating multi subnets(or lans) i just said it is another way of doing it, there are some benefits of sending everything through the server, such as secirity, AV, firewall, proxy etc.. and monitoring.

You don't actually need dhcp on the router you could use a static ip on the wan nic i think.

 

Well I have now added an XP client to the domain, Thanks everyone, particularly Boyce for your advice. I set some static IP addresses and its now working fine.

It seems part of the problem is the fact I've dual booted XP on my Dell Studio Laptop and Dell doesn't support this, there are a few pesky yellow question marks in the device manager, which I can only presume one of them is a network controller I need. I dug out an old laptop with XP on it and added that with no problem.

Does anyone know if anywhere I could get drivers for XP for a dell studio 1535 laptop? I've had a look in the past. If not its gonna have to be done on an ancient Dell Latitude, which both hinges on the screen have broken on, I have to rest the screen against a load of books to stop it falling over. Its well Rinky Dink!

 

Theres probably XP drivers around somewhere, if you know all the devices and the chips you can probably find the drivers from the OEM.

If you write down what the drivers are in vista and look at the laptop specs and hunt around a bit I'm sure you can sort.

 

Glad you got it sorted. You can always setup DHCP later on.

Yellow question marks means that the hardware is not working correctly. Dell keep most software and drivers on their site for a long time after the models have been sold to be fair. Go to the support site and enter the tag number (usually on the underneth of the laptop, or rear of desktop) and you should be able to get what you need.

 

I've tried it Boyce they don't do drivers to downgrade to XP! It comes with vista preinstalled, I've tried before.

Looks the old faithful dell latitude is gonna have to be used. Its like Rocky in Rocky 6!

 

In DM click on driver details and you should get the id of the driver, like ven_8086 dev_2742 etc

Then google that.

You probaby have xp home on the dell laptop and xp home doesn't support domains alhought there is a 3rd party software that allows you to do it on home.