router as dhcp server

[mikegee]

ok--here it is i am using a linky router between 4 machines-1 running ME & the rest win2000. I am trying to get communication between the ME machine and the win2000 machines through Ghost using a fat32 ghost networking disk. I cannot. I am wondering if i should setup the linky as a dhcp server and assign static ips to all the machines behind the linky. I am out of answers or solutions. symantec's support page is pitiful. the ME machine is the one that needs to be imaged and saved, and i did not want to always move the large >gho files across the network after they were imaged. I have encountered errors doing that. I will be glad to give more info if any of you are willing to help

mikegee:(

[adiefender]

I take it your Win2K Machines have NTFS File sysem. IF so you will have trouble with fransfering files from ME to 2K and back.
If you were to add another HD to one of the Win2K Machines and keep that drive Fat32 than you can transfer files back and forth all day without errors.
Also if you want to make your network connections better you need to add users to the other machines, Say your Me Machine is names Bill and one 2K machine is Bob and another 2k Machine is Jon then you need to add users to the machines to get more reliable network connections. On 2kJon add users Bill & Bob on 2k Bob add Bill & Jon, YOu get teh picture ?

I dont use dhcp in my Linksys router i give all 4 of my comp ip's, Some times that will make things better too

[YeOldeStonecat]

Files transfer without any problems between file systems, the OS translates it. You either have permission to access the NTFS drive, or you don't...as long as you added a user account to the NT boxl, gave permission to that share to that account, and you're logging onto your other computer with that account.

NTFS partitions cannot be read from a 9X machine if you slave an NTFS drive in and try to read it through Explorer.

I think he's having issues with his network ghosting because of IP addressing, which the Linksys normally handles with it's DHCP service.

Try assigning your two workstations static IP addresses, such as 192.168.1.11 and 192.168.1.12, same class C subnet mask of 255.255.255.0 on all of them. Gateway for both is your router, 192.168.1.11, leave WINS disabled. And for DNS....you enter your ISP's two DNS servers. Call them to ask what they are, or take a look on your routers web admin page when it's connected, on the status tab...your WAN info...the two DNS servers your ISP hand's out will be listed there. DNS host name is just your computers network identification...whatever you called it, and DNS domain is your ISP's formal domain name.

[mikegee]

thanks!!! i'll give it a try and get back to ya

[mikegee]

Stonecat:
I set up the computers they work fine BUT--i am using ghost 2002 boot disks with fat 32 and the correct drivers. i can boot usin the correct IPs now, and set the win2k machine as slave and the winme as master .when I try to connect to ghost the win me machine thru the router to the win2k machine, the win2k machine goes black and then goes back to the floppy. the windows me machine then gives an error message about not connecting. i have used the disks to individually ghost on each machine, so it ain't the disks--it must be something i do not understand. I also tried to connect(after changing ip addresses on the disks) to a windows 98 machine with the same results. is it something i have not set right in the router? I can see all the machines when they are booted up and access those as well---just not in " dos " across the network
any help to go in another direction would be appreciated.
mikegee