Win2K Server and ADSL broadband

Thanks to help from this group I have managed to configure my router
to forward incoming web traffic to a particular machine on my network.
Good news so far.

I soon discovered that XP Pro will only allow the hosting of one site
(there's no HTTP header options in IIS on XP Pro) and I want to host
two very low traffic, simple sites.
So, I forwarded port 80 to a different computer on the network on
which I installed Win2K Server.

Here's the problem. Win2K Server will not see my ADSL router and pick
up an Internet connection. It boots up with a 169.254 address and I
can't ping the router. If I remove the network cable, it detects that
it's been removed and if I then plug that cable straight into my XP
laptop - bang! - it picks it up straight away.

Also, I have a cable modem coming into another router and if I plug
the Win2K Server into *that* (not a long term option as it's going
soon in favour of the ADSL + static IP address setup), all is fine.

Can anyone tell me what I need to do to get my Win2K Server to pick up
on my ADSL connection?

Help!

Thanks.

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Pooley

I haven't used Win2k Server in a while, since I moved over to Linux, but I
suspect that it doesn't want to pick up an IP from the router since it has a
built-in DHCP server. You might want to try disabling that for starters, or
setting the IP information statically (setting the gateway to the IP of your
router).

Good luck

-George

"Pooley" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Thanks to help from this group I have managed to configure my router
> to forward incoming web traffic to a particular machine on my network.
> Good news so far.
>
> I soon discovered that XP Pro will only allow the hosting of one site
> (there's no HTTP header options in IIS on XP Pro) and I want to host
> two very low traffic, simple sites.
> So, I forwarded port 80 to a different computer on the network on
> which I installed Win2K Server.
>
> Here's the problem. Win2K Server will not see my ADSL router and pick
> up an Internet connection. It boots up with a 169.254 address and I
> can't ping the router. If I remove the network cable, it detects that
> it's been removed and if I then plug that cable straight into my XP
> laptop - bang! - it picks it up straight away.
>
> Also, I have a cable modem coming into another router and if I plug
> the Win2K Server into *that* (not a long term option as it's going
> soon in favour of the ADSL + static IP address setup), all is fine.
>
> Can anyone tell me what I need to do to get my Win2K Server to pick up
> on my ADSL connection?
>
> Help!
>
> Thanks.
>
> ---
> Pooley


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In message <(E-Mail Removed)>, Pooley
<(E-Mail Removed)> writes


>Can anyone tell me what I need to do to get my Win2K Server to pick up
>on my ADSL connection?

I always use static IP addresses on small networks, and always for
server systems. I would configure the W2K server with a static IP
address and gateway. That should fix it.



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