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Problem: &nbsp;I want to use my Win98 laptop to transfer work between my office LAN and my LAN at home. &nbsp;At work, we log onto a Novell server, and the client is installed on my laptop - no problem.<br />
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At home, i'm currently using NETBEUI, so again, no problem.<br />
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But i now want to reconfigure my LAN at home and use TCP/IP. &nbsp;I can either assign IP addreses to my workstations, but if i have to, i can add DHCP server to my NT4 W/S from the resource kit and have that dish them out.<br />
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I'd rather use static IP addreses, but my laptop is configured to obtain an IP address from a server, and as i understand it, the network settings are global to the machine and can't be changed in hardware profiles.<br />
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Am i right? &nbsp;Is there an easy way to have two different options on my laptop, i.e obtain an IP address when logging on the Novell server, and use a static IP address when logging onto my LAN at home, or should i just go ahead and install DHCP on my NT machine?<br />
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BTW, the reason i want to have TCP/IP on my home LAN is for website/ASP development and internet shaing purposes through one dial up connection.<br />
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All thoughts and views appreciated.<br />

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Problem:  I want to use my Win98 laptop to transfer work between my office LAN and my LAN at home.  At work, we log onto a Novell server, and the client is installed on my laptop - no problem.

At home, i'm currently using NETBEUI, so again, no problem.

But i now want to reconfigure my LAN at home and use TCP/IP.  I can either assign IP addreses to my workstations, but if i have to, i can add DHCP server to my NT4 W/S from the resource kit and have that dish them out.

I'd rather use static IP addreses, but my laptop is configured to obtain an IP address from a server, and as i understand it, the network settings are global to the machine and can't be changed in hardware profiles.

Am i right?  Is there an easy way to have two different options on my laptop, i.e obtain an IP address when logging on the Novell server, and use a static IP address when logging onto my LAN at home, or should i just go ahead and install DHCP on my NT machine?

BTW, the reason i want to have TCP/IP on my home LAN is for website/ASP development and internet shaing purposes through one dial up connection.

All thoughts and views appreciated.


Multiple network configs.

This topic area includes legacy versions of Windows prior to Windows 2000: Windows 3/3.1, Windows 95 and Windows 98, plus any other Windows-related versions including Windows Mobile.