Dan, > Makes sense > > I thought that was probably what was happenning > > I have no desire to run a dns server on my network - but I would prefer to > use AD to simplify user managment etc, and I undersatnd I have to have DNS > server runing to do it... >
First things first - have you got 2 network cards in the PC on which you want to share the internet connection? (or an ISDN card and a network card) If not then you'll need to sort that out before you think about anything else. I'm not entirely sure how Active Directory works, but the Internet Connection sharing requires that the internal network card is set to be 192.0.0.1 and PC on the network that are set to use this machine for their internet connection look for this to pick up their own IP addresses. The machine providing the share has to be the DHCP server and the connection share will provide the DNS details. > Are you saying that there is no way that ICS and AD will cohabit > successfully? > Not sure, but as long as the AD only wants to be a primary domain server, you should be ok. > My ISP provides DNS addresses that I can use instead of the dynamically > assigned ones - I was wondering if I could use those in the DNS server? > Well - yes you kind of do, but only when the connection is up, its a bit of a pain to manually assign network details to PCs that are going use a shared connection. This should all be provided by the DHCP part of the internet connection share. Much less hassle. > All I want is to have internet access for all the machines on my network > (4...) and active directory to control access... > Is it the access the internet connection you want to manage? Cos I think ICS, like other sharing in windows, has security settings. Regards Stephen ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in the body or visit the list page at www.houseoffusion.com
