Hello guys, figured you guys would be able to provide me with the information I need. This is the first time I am setting up a server, so everything is a bit new to me still.
This is the situation: we have a small office with three computers, and I figured we could set up a server using some old hardware (for lulz, basically). This office is situated in a big building with many offices and computers, and there is one internet connection for the whole thing, which means we until now had different static IP's for all computers in the office.
Here is my plan: instead of all of our computers connecting directly to the internet and the house network, only the server would be connected to the house network+internet and it would then act as a DHCP server and share that connection with the other computers connected to it.
I tried to set up DHCP on the server and I also tried to set up NAT, but to be completely honest, I'm not really sure what I technically want to do. I did manage to get the DHCP server running somehow, and I even got the clients to connect to the server (could browse shared folders), but I didn't manage to connect to the internet.
I would really appreciate someone holding my hand a bit and helping me out, would be great to get this working. I will of course provide any additional details. I also posted this on the Afterdawn forums, but I later figured I should post it somewhere else as well
Thanks in advance!
This is the situation: we have a small office with three computers, and I figured we could set up a server using some old hardware (for lulz, basically). This office is situated in a big building with many offices and computers, and there is one internet connection for the whole thing, which means we until now had different static IP's for all computers in the office.
Here is my plan: instead of all of our computers connecting directly to the internet and the house network, only the server would be connected to the house network+internet and it would then act as a DHCP server and share that connection with the other computers connected to it.
Code:
Old way:
Internet--(Static IP)--Computer 1
|--(Static IP)--Computer 2
|--(Static IP)--Computer 3
New way:
Internet--(Static IP)--Server*--Switch--(Dynamic IP)--Computer 1
|--(Dynamic IP)--Computer 2
|--(Dynamic IP)--Computer 3
*The server has two network adaptersI tried to set up DHCP on the server and I also tried to set up NAT, but to be completely honest, I'm not really sure what I technically want to do. I did manage to get the DHCP server running somehow, and I even got the clients to connect to the server (could browse shared folders), but I didn't manage to connect to the internet.
I would really appreciate someone holding my hand a bit and helping me out, would be great to get this working. I will of course provide any additional details. I also posted this on the Afterdawn forums, but I later figured I should post it somewhere else as well
Thanks in advance!